Bug#830617: apt: "apt-get clean" makes apt-cache slow
On Sat, Jul 09, 2016 at 09:26:11PM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 1.3~pre2
> Usertags: serious
>
> "apt-get clean" makes apt-cache slooooooooooow:
>
> $ time apt-cache show apt > /dev/null
>
> real 0m0.270s
> user 0m0.232s
> sys 0m0.028s
>
> $ sudo apt-get clean
>
> $ time apt-cache show apt > /dev/null
>
> real 0m4.118s
> user 0m3.072s
> sys 0m0.312s
>
>
> The manpage says that this command "clean clears out the local repository of
> retrieved package files" so I wouldn't expect it to have any effect on
> apt-cache.
>
That was the case, but we made clean clean the cache files too to catch
broken caches. So it's a documentation issue (or we could regenerate the
cache during clean...)
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