Re: [gentoo-user] Update portage cache ... horribly slow

[Glenn Enright <elinar@ihug.co.nz>]

On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 08:22, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 04:58:12 +0000, Glenn Enright wrote:
> > I second esync. It is a nice script that runs a little faster than
> > 'emerge sync'.
>
> It calls emerge sync, so how can it run faster?
>
> # This script imports the current esearch index,
> # calls `emerge sync` and `eupdatedb` and then
> # shows the packages which were updated or added
> # during the sync.
> #...
> syncprogram =   "/usr/bin/emerge sync"

Umm... i didn't realize that! :p Until now I hadn't actually looked at the 
esync script.

I guess while I was trying it out, subjectively it seemed to do its thing 
faster. Perhaps that was down to the fact it calls emerge with the verbose 
option off, which provides less overhead in the terminal. But obviously that 
is easy enough to do from the command line as well. Still I get the 
functionality of esearch in the bargain so it suits me.

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