[gentoo-portage-dev] Re: [PATCH 4/5] Add IndexedVardb class.

[Zac Medico]

On 11/01/2014 03:46 PM, Zac Medico wrote:
> Searching of installed packages is optimized to take advantage of
> vardbdbapi._aux_cache, which is backed by vdb_metadata.pickle.
> This class only implements a subset of vardbapi functionality that is
> useful for searching incrementally. For this reason, the cp_all method
> returns an ordered iterator instead of a list, so that search results
> can be displayed incrementally.
>
> X-Gentoo-Bug: 525718
> X-Gentoo-Bug-URL: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=525718

I think we should create a vdb index that can be appended to, like a
journal. Then IndexedVardb could just read the index/journal and that
would provide all of the needed data without having to look inside
/var/db/pkg/*.
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Thanks,
Zac