Hi, On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 06:03:20PM +0200, Johannes Schauer <j.scha...@email.de> wrote: > in bug#747879 I asked to support "ben query" on Packages and Sources > files without needing a ben.cache file. On the other hand, ben.cache > files are super because if I want to do multiple queries, then ben.cache > loads much faster than multiple Packages and Sources files. > > I currently create a ben.cache file by creating a directory structure > containing > > dists/unstable/main/binary-amd64/Packages > dists/unstable/main/binary-armel/Packages > [...] > dists/unstable/main/source/Sources > > all of them being symlinks to my actual Packages and Sources files. This > works well because curl supports the file:// protocol. > > But this has the downside that not only do I have to create this > directory and symlink structure but also that curl creates a copy of all > those files in the cache-dir which I then have to remove after ben.cache > is created. >
Well, "ben download" may create a ben.cache file if asked to after downloading Packages_* and Sources files: ben download --use-cache [...] (iirc). I really would like to avoid adding an ad-hoc way to create a ben.cache file especially when "ben download" can already do it. Or, please describe a nice and integrated way to do that. I have to admit I don't have great ideas for this one. Another solution could be writing/building such a specific tool using libben-ocaml in your package. What do you think? Regards, -- Mehdi Dogguy
