Re: [gentoo-dev] maybe it is time to put portage queries into a database.

[Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@gentoo.org>]

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On Wednesday 25 June 2003 00:41, Marius Mauch wrote:
>
> BTW, I also noted the slowness of the search function, especially when
> searching in descriptions, my worst measured result was 25 minutes! Most
> likely caused by a serious lack of ram, but half an hour just to find a
> package is really annoying.
>

The problem is the enormous amount of ebuilds we offer. The amount of ebuilds 
is currently: 8553 and the amount of files is: 50435.

Try the following script to make searching faster:
find /usr/portage/ -name "*.ebuild" -exec grep -H DESCRIPTION {} \; \
  |awk -F: '{ sub("(/usr/portage/[^/]*/)","",$1); sub("/.*","",$1); \
  printf("%-20s:%s\n", $1, $2) }'|sort |uniq >~/descriptions

This will make a nice file with all descriptions for all packages, filtered 
for duplicates. Just use grep on this file instead of emerge -S and you can 
find the package. If you put the creation of this file in crontab, you have 
yourself a fast and flexible solution, with only 4726 lines of descriptions.

Paul

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