Re: rebuilding available

2002-12-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 08:08:36PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Is it possible to rebuild the dpkg available file? 'dselect update' does so. It won't get (much) shorter though. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: rebuilding available

2002-12-04 Thread Bruce Sass
On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Is it possible to rebuild the dpkg available file? I have on one a P75 > that's so big it's impossible to efficiently parse anymore. A simple dpkg -l > takes minutes. I don't think so, dlocate (from the pkg with the same name) is faster. - Bruc

rebuilding available

2002-12-04 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hey people, Is it possible to rebuild the dpkg available file? I have on one a P75 that's so big it's impossible to efficiently parse anymore. A simple dpkg -l takes minutes. Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "...the word HACK is us