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From: Tony Clark <tclark@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] maybe it is time to put portage queries into a database.
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 22:36:02
Message-Id: 200306250036.00640.tclark@telia.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] maybe it is time to put portage queries into a database. by jesse
1 On Wednesday 25 June 2003 00.16, jesse wrote:
2 > I would say options, tools and the ability to do this sorta stuff should
3 > be optional. I don't wan't to have to run mysql on my laptop however
4 > having portage db in a dbfile would be handy. On the other hand i run 8
5 > machines in my house on Gentoo, and having each machines info and db's
6 > in my mysql server here would be a great boon ( already using local
7 > syncing and nfs mounted dist dirs)
8
9 Yes as soon as I posted it, I realised it should be an optional add on. I did
10 another quick test and emerge -s actually runs much faster on the nfs server,
11 x5, however, emerge -S is just as big a pain.
12
13 >
14 > using DBI this could make it pretty easy to support
15 > mysql/postrgesql/dbfiles. Isn't there already a project out there doin
16 > somthing with mysql ?
17
18 Not that I am aware of. If there is let me know.
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20 >
21 >
22 > 0.02$
23 >
24 > On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 15:00, Tony Clark wrote:
25 > > I wanted to quickly find a package with emerge -s whatever. I noticed
26 > > that it seemed to be taking a long time now for basic searches. A couple
27 > > of random example are presented below. Now in my case on the machine in
28 > > question, it is probably a bit slower than need be as /usr/portage is nfs
29 > > mounted but neither the nfs server, this client are what would be called
30 > > slow machines and I run 100baset ethernet.
31
32 tony
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