Re: New package dependency field format
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Joe Moore wrote:
> Adam Heath said:
> > Brainstorming: There could be a bootup script that builds a cache of
> > some sort, that contains the list of runtime features that are
> > available. This could be based on the kernel and cpu. apt and dpkg
> > could then read this cache.
>
> Perhaps at "apt-get update" time? Apt is already doing time-intensive work
> (unless you are on a _very_ fast link to your mirror), building an on-disk
> datastructure while parsing the Packages file shouldn't be that much more
> time. Add in a config option to not automatically update the cache, and a
> --force-cache-update that the user can run occasionally if they want.
>
> IANAdpkgDeveloper, so I might be misunderstanding the problem.
The problem is that the hardware/kernel can change between apt-get update
runs.
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