Re: aptitude "initialising package status" takes _really_ long
On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 11:17:04 -0700
Alan Ianson <agianson@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > at the start of aptitude and after every action you have took,
> > > aptitude has to initialise its package status. This is the same
> > > step as "loading cache". Yesterday I have updated aptitude to .
> > > Since then this step takes _really_ long. Lets say 40s. I am on
> > > sid. There is no output it any loggs
>
> >
> > I have the same problem (also running sid). There is a bugreport by
> > me relating to this behaviour.
>
> I get the same thing on my amd64 box, on my laptop it takes about
> forever.. :) I saw on the bts that it is caused by some new feature
> of apt, tags or something.
> I suspect it will be fixed soon.
I thought I was all alone :) On my 2.6 ghz dual-core, Aptitude
keep-all took more than an hour. I gave up and killed it !!
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