Re: Speeding up dpkg triggers with a list of changes

2012-10-22 Thread Guillem Jover
On Mon, 2012-10-22 at 20:27:41 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > In the specific case of mandb I'd rather just try first to make the > interest more fine-grained (say one per manN subdir), and changing > mandb to accept subdirs. I think that could improve the current > situation quite a lot w/o other m

Re: Speeding up dpkg triggers with a list of changes

2012-10-22 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Mon, 2012-10-22 at 20:24:33 +0300, Kari Pahula wrote: > I tried out using inotify to speed up dpkg file triggers, with man-db > as a test case, not that this approach is limited to that. > I'd say that doing this is a worthwhile thing, but I'd like to discuss > the specifics. How closely

Speeding up dpkg triggers with a list of changes

2012-10-22 Thread Kari Pahula
I had a fun little weekend project. I tried out using inotify to speed up dpkg file triggers, with man-db as a test case, not that this approach is limited to that. My code consists of two programs, one that parses a .triggers file and collects the events in the background and another one that as