Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] search functionality in emerge

[Pacho Ramos <pacho@condmat1.ciencias.uniovi.es>]

El dom, 23-11-2008 a las 16:01 +0200, tvali escribió:
> Try esearch.
> 
> emerge esearch
> esearch ...
> 
> 2008/11/23 Emma Strubell <emma.strubell@gmail.com>
>         Hi everyone. My name is Emma, and I am completely new to this
>         list. I've been using Gentoo since 2004, including Portage of
>         course, and before I say anything else I'd like to say thanks
>         to everyone for such a kickass package management system!!
>         
>         Anyway, for my final project in my Data Structures &
>         Algorithms class this semester, I would like to modify the
>         search functionality in emerge. Something I've always noticed
>         about 'emerge -s' or '-S' is that, in general, it takes a very
>         long time to perform the searches. (Although, lately it does
>         seem to be running faster, specifically on my laptop as
>         opposed to my desktop. Strangely, though, it seems that when I
>         do a simple 'emerge -av whatever' on my laptop it takes a very
>         long time for emerge to find the package and/or determine the
>         dependecies -  whatever it's doing behind that spinner. I can
>         definitely go into more detail about this if anyone's
>         interested. It's really been puzzling me!) So, as my final
>         project I've proposed to improve the time it takes to perform
>         a search using emerge. My professor suggested that I look into
>         implementing indexing.
>         
>         However, I've started looking at the code, and I must admit
>         I'm pretty overwhelmed! I don't know where to start. I was
>         wondering if anyone on here could give me a quick overview of
>         how the search function currently works, an idea as to what
>         could be modified or implemented in order to improve the
>         running time of this code, or any tip really as to where I
>         should start or what I should start looking at. I'd really
>         appreciate any help or advice!!
>         
>         Thanks a lot, and keep on making my Debian-using professor
>         jealous :]
>         Emma
> 
> 
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I use eix:
emerge eix

;-)