Friday, April 15, 2022

Re: new stuff in pkg_add

Hi Marc,
is there anything we can do to test it as a port maintainer ?
and a user (apart from regular update of snapshot and pkg_add -u and
pkg_add -u -D snap ?
Thanks

On Fri, 15 Apr 2022 at 20:59, Marc Espie <espie@nerim.net> wrote:
>
> I've been working on some caching mechanism building quirks at the end
> of a dpb run, and storing all the update-info for all built packages
> in a locate(8) file.
>
> The results are more drastic than I expected. I'm still fine-tuning stuff,
> because caching means a possibility of getting out-of-synch, and pkg_add
> should still recover properly, but expect *very* significant speed-ups in
> frequent pkg_add -u somewhere post 7.1.
>


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Kindest regards,
Tom Smyth.

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