Bug#265009: some more stuff

[Michael Vogt <mvogt@acm.org>]

Hi,

a update for this bugreport/patch. It fixes the locales problem I
described in my earlier mail. It changes from querining LC_ALL to
LC_MESSAGES. Attached is a patch that need to be applyed after the
first patch :)

Another thing I noticed is that the patch has a certain performance
hit when it comes to searching even when LANG=C and no translated
descriptions are downloaded. I did some highly unscientific tests with
"time" and found that searching for "synaptic" increased:

apt (pure):
-----------
user: 2.6
sys: 0.2

apt(i18n):
----------
uses: 3.4
sys:  0.2

on my system. I think that this is a pretty big hit for the cache when
actually no additonal data is used. I have not yet figured how if
there is a way to avoid the hit. Comments on this are highly welcome
:) 

thanks,
 Michael


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diff -u apt-pkg/indexfile.cc apt-pkg/indexfile.cc
--- apt-pkg/indexfile.cc	11 Aug 2004 11:10:45 -0000
+++ apt-pkg/indexfile.cc	11 Aug 2004 13:32:45 -0000
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@
   const string Translation = _config->Find("APT::Acquire::Translation");
 
   if (Translation.compare("environment") == 0)
-     return std::setlocale(LC_ALL,NULL);
+     return std::setlocale(LC_MESSAGES,NULL);
   else 
      return Translation;
 }