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

[René 'Necoro' Neumann]

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tvali schrieb:
> There is daemon, which notices about filesystem changes -
> http://pyinotify.sourceforge.net/ would be a good choice.

Disadvantage: Has to run all the time (I see already some people crying:
"oh noez. not yet another daemon..."). Problem with offline changes
(which might be overcome by a one-time check on daemon-startup ... but
this would really increase the startup time).

I have built an algorithm, which does sth like:
for overlay in OVERLAYS + PORTDIR:
	db[overlay] = md5("".join(f.st_mtime for files(overlay)))

and then compare the MD5-values on later runs.
This is fast if the portage stuff is already cached - else it is quite
slow ;). Another disadvantage is, that it does not know, WHAT changes do
have occurred and thus has to re-read the complete overlay.

I like the filesystem idea more, than the one with the daemon :). Write
a new FS (using FUSE f.ex. (LUFS is deprecated)) which provides a
logfile. This logfile can either just contain the time of the latest
change in the complete subtree, or even some kind of log stating WHICH
files have been changed.

I think, this should even be possible, if the tree is not on its own
partition.

Of course, this should be clearly an opt-in solution: If the user does
not modify the trees by hand, or does so seldomly, the "create index
after sync" (similarly to 'eix-sync') is sufficient.

Regards,
René
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