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Jerry McBride wrote: |
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> Jesse Guardiani wrote: |
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>> Hello, |
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>> First off, sorry if this isn't the right place! |
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>> I didn't see anything more appropriate though, except |
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>> perhaps Portage-dev, but I'm not a developer. |
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>> I'm a FreeBSD user switching to Gentoo for my home |
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>> system. Linux 2.6 is a LOT more stable than any |
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>> FreeBSD 5.x-RELEASE kernels right now, and Linux |
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>> has much better support for Wine and such. |
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>> One of the most obvious differences between FreeBSD |
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>> ports and Gentoo Portage is how LONG it takes to |
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>> search for ports/packages with Portage. |
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>> I have 525 ports installed on my FreeBSD laptop right |
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>> now, and probably only half of that installed on the |
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>> Gentoo machine, but the gentoo machine crunches a lot |
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>> more doing a --search than the FreeBSD machine does |
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>> with a pkg_version -vs 'name'. |
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>> And forget about --searchdesc! That takes ages! |
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>> Is portage not hash indexed or something? |
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> The BIG hitch in portage is the database strategy....it's file system |
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> based. Basicly it's thousands of small text files... you want to update |
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> the database?.... open, read, close over and over again.... |
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> It sucks. |
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> Portage is crying for an sql database backend... mysql, sqllite, mmsql... |
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> anything would be nice. |
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> Tell us more about your bsd ports, it sounds interesting... |
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I believe FreeBSD uses an INDEX file in /usr/ports/INDEX, and then |
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compiles that file into a berkeley DB file or something in /usr/ports/INDEX.db. |
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I'm not really very fond of FreeBSD ports these days, actually. |
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It has the feel of something hackish, in desperate need of a |
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good bottom-up redesign. |
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I'm starting to think that Gentoo's Portage is superior in almost |
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all ways, but I do think this search speed thing needs to be |
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dealt with. |
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I'm using esearch now, which is nice, but rebuilding the database is |
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a royal pain in the rear, and the database isn't kept in sync between |
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emerge runs. |
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If the esearch database could be updated without having to rebuild |
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the entire thing (or at least without having to look at the filesystem |
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to rebuild the entire thing) after every emerge operation then I think |
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we'd be doing well. |
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Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator |
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