On Sun, 06 Dec 2015 20:17:32 +0000, Niels Thykier wrote: > >> * /var/cache/apt-file will disappear > >> - command-not-found and dh-make-perl are known consumers > > What would you recommend as a replacement? Parse the output from > > 'apt-file search'? > I presume there is a reason these tools decided to by pass apt-file and > rely on its "internal" cache. I would be surprised in apt-file/3 had > fixed that reason, though I would certainly be interested in knowing the > "why".
The reason to add the chache was simply speed: % time apt-file search Rinci.pm librinci-perl: /usr/share/perl5/Rinci.pm librinci-perl: /usr/share/perl5/Sah/Schema/Rinci.pm apt-file search Rinci.pm 7.93s user 0.68s system 114% cpu 7.511 total % time dh-make-perl locate Rinci == dh-make-perl 0.89 == Using cached Contents from Mon Dec 7 01:54:34 2015 Rinci is in librinci-perl package dh-make-perl locate Rinci 0.30s user 0.04s system 99% cpu 0.343 total (After creating the cache, which took almost a minute but is only needed after apt-file updates and/or once per day or something like that.) > Anyhow, the cache is now maintained by apt, so you are looking for the > "apt-get indextargets" command if you want to preserve direct access to > the "apt-file cache". > For perl based programs, the "contents_file_paths" from apt-file might > be a useful inspiration for how to do that in practise. I'll let Dam take a look into this :) Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Homepage: http://info.comodo.priv.at/ - OpenPGP key 0xBB3A68018649AA06 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, and developer - https://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: Gypsy Sun And Rainbows: Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
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