Re: tdpkg cache wrapper to dpkg

2010-03-15 Thread Luca Bruno
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 10:59:25PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > You should try the last version of dpkg in experimental, which improved > the way the .list files are read. (Also note this could be (slightly) > improved further). Thanks a lot for working on that! Yes dpkg from experimental is way fa

Re: tdpkg cache wrapper to dpkg

2010-03-15 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 10:55:19PM +0100, Luca Bruno wrote: > Hello, > it's since 2007 that cache for dpkg has been proposed but maintainers never > replied. For this reason I've written a shared library libtdpkg.so to wrap > open/fstat/rename/unlink calls from dpkg for .list files in order to cach

tdpkg cache wrapper to dpkg

2010-03-15 Thread Luca Bruno
Hello, it's since 2007 that cache for dpkg has been proposed but maintainers never replied. For this reason I've written a shared library libtdpkg.so to wrap open/fstat/rename/unlink calls from dpkg for .list files in order to cache the contents of those files. The result is quite impressive on ho