On Thursday 12 February 2009, Roland Mas wrote: > This can be useful for people preparing packages, to check whether > a generated *.deb should declare a conflict against other packages > already in Debian because of file conflicts. This implementation > is very crude and rather slow, and a rewrite of that feature inside > apt-file itself would avoid forking for each file to be tested, but > it's a start.
A relatively easy way to do this with better performance would be to use Regexp::Assemble to create a single regexp from the file list and then search for that. Doing this from outside apt-file may run into the length limit for command line arguments, though. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
