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On 5/25/06, Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au> wrote: |
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> On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 16:00 -0700, Lord Sauron wrote: |
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> > On 5/25/06, Thomas Kirchner <lists@××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> > > > It takes about as long to start going as it does to open the archive |
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> > > > /portage-20060123.tar.bz2 - conincidence? I think not! |
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> > > I think so ;) |
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> > If it's not, then I really need to ask why on earth portage takes so |
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> > long to just index and search packages that took apt-get much less |
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> > time to work with. |
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> In defence of portage, I estimate there are 11229 packages that portage |
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> has to search through descriptions, dependencies, masks, etc: |
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apt-get (as of Debian 3.1 Sarge) searches 33,333 seperate packages or so. |
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> $ cd /usr/portage; find . -maxdepth 2 -mindepth 1 -type d | wc -l |
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> 11229 |
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> does apt-get really search this many packages? |
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It does more. |
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> > I don't think it should be this slow. |
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> And I don't think I should have this little money :) But seriously, I |
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> think you trade off speed when searching, vs speed when syncing, vs |
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> keeping a database up to date. As already mentioned, there are other |
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> tools to help speed it up. |
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Yeah, well... apt-get was faster on the sync and on the search. It's |
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not fair to compare installation times, but it was also faster on |
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calculating the dependencies. |
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If anything, this is a indicator that I need to try and contribute to |
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the portage project... at least contribute as much as I'm able. |
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> Also, |
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> On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 11:45 -0700, Lord Sauron wrote: |
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> > I also get the bonehead award: there was a new kernel sitting on my |
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> > hard drive and just yesterday I found and installed it. It was |
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> > remarkably easy to install! I loaded the configuration file from my |
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> > old kernel and then just make && make install and it worked! I didn't |
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> > even have to edit /boot/grub/menu.lst! |
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> Are you sure you're running it if you didn't have to edit grub? Does |
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> `uname -r` agree with the new version you just installed? |
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I went through dmesg and stuff and I'm totally positive. |
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