[gentoo-dev] Speeding up emerge -s

[gentoo-dev] Speeding up emerge -s

[Peter Sharp]

Hi all,

I do the Portage Watch section of Gentoo Weekly News.

In order to check for masking my script uses emerge -s and greps for masked.  
The reason for this is that it is easy and also future-proof as far as 
masking locations are concerned.  (I _will_ soon be adding in information for 
non-x86 users).

The problem is that it is very slow.  As I hope to release the script for 
people to use themselves eventually I would like to speed it up.  My 
questions is therefore given that I know the exact category/package (ie I 
don't need to search) is there a better (quicker) way to get this 
information?

TIA

Peter

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[gentoo-dev] Re: Speeding up emerge -s

[Kai Großjohann]

Peter Sharp <mail@psharp.uklinux.net> writes:

> In order to check for masking my script uses emerge -s and greps for masked.  
> The reason for this is that it is easy and also future-proof as far as 
> masking locations are concerned.  (I _will_ soon be adding in information for 
> non-x86 users).
>
> The problem is that it is very slow.  As I hope to release the script for 
> people to use themselves eventually I would like to speed it up.  My 
> questions is therefore given that I know the exact category/package (ie I 
> don't need to search) is there a better (quicker) way to get this 
> information?

I'm not at my Gentoo system at the moment, but maybe "qpkg $PACKAGE
-i" displays the information you need?
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