Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] search functionality in emerge

[Emma Strubell]

Thanks for the replies! I know there are a couple programs out there that
basically already do what I'm looking to do... Unfortunately I wasn't aware
of these pre-existing utilities until after I submitted my project proposal
to my professor. So, I'm looking to implement a better search myself.
Preferably by editing the existing portage code, not writing a separate
program. So if anyone can offer any help regarding the actual implementation
of search in portage, I would greatly appreciate it!

Or, if anyone has an idea for a more productive/useful project I could work
on relating to portage (about the same difficulty, preferably at least a
little bit data structure related), please, let me know! Thanks again guys,

Emma

On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Pacho Ramos <
pacho@××××××××××××××××××××××××.es> wrote:

> El dom, 23-11-2008 a las 16:01 +0200, tvali escribió:
> > Try esearch.
> >
> > emerge esearch
> > esearch ...
> >
> > 2008/11/23 Emma Strubell <emma.strubell@×××××.com>
> >         Hi everyone. My name is Emma, and I am completely new to this
> >         list. I've been using Gentoo since 2004, including Portage of
> >         course, and before I say anything else I'd like to say thanks
> >         to everyone for such a kickass package management system!!
> >
> >         Anyway, for my final project in my Data Structures &
> >         Algorithms class this semester, I would like to modify the
> >         search functionality in emerge. Something I've always noticed
> >         about 'emerge -s' or '-S' is that, in general, it takes a very
> >         long time to perform the searches. (Although, lately it does
> >         seem to be running faster, specifically on my laptop as
> >         opposed to my desktop. Strangely, though, it seems that when I
> >         do a simple 'emerge -av whatever' on my laptop it takes a very
> >         long time for emerge to find the package and/or determine the
> >         dependecies -  whatever it's doing behind that spinner. I can
> >         definitely go into more detail about this if anyone's
> >         interested. It's really been puzzling me!) So, as my final
> >         project I've proposed to improve the time it takes to perform
> >         a search using emerge. My professor suggested that I look into
> >         implementing indexing.
> >
> >         However, I've started looking at the code, and I must admit
> >         I'm pretty overwhelmed! I don't know where to start. I was
> >         wondering if anyone on here could give me a quick overview of
> >         how the search function currently works, an idea as to what
> >         could be modified or implemented in order to improve the
> >         running time of this code, or any tip really as to where I
> >         should start or what I should start looking at. I'd really
> >         appreciate any help or advice!!
> >
> >         Thanks a lot, and keep on making my Debian-using professor
> >         jealous :]
> >         Emma
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > tvali
> >
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>
> I use eix:
> emerge eix
>
> ;-)
>
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