Hi! On Tue, 2013-08-06 at 09:54:20 +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: > Package: dpkg > Version: 1.16.10 > Severity: wishlist
> In light of <20130731162432.ga10...@gaara.hadrons.org>, I would like > to request dpkg -f and dpkg-deb -f would work without writing a > temporary file to the disk. > Currently, Lintian uses its own "ar | tar"-pipeline because "dpkg-deb > -f $file is very slow"[1]. The comment does not specify what causes > the slowness. > As far as simple benchmarks have shown me, there seem > to be no real difference between dpkg-deb -f and "ar | tar" > performance-wise (with /tmp being tmpfs). So I guess that the only > (remaining?) problem is the extraction to disk. Yeah, that's one of the things I was going to fix as part of the planned overhaul of that area of the code base. Similar problems occur when creating .deb files, that temporary files are created for each member. Thanks, Guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
