[Popcon-developers] Bug#622322: popularity-contest: popcon tries to access dpkg internal files and fails with multiarch: same packageso

[Bill Allombert]

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 10:51:57PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Apr 2011, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 09:11:59PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > > On Wed, 20 Apr 2011, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > > > On my system with 1200 packages (far below the average popcon submitter),
> > > > traditional popcon take 2s.  Once patched with the attached patch to use dpkg -L, 
> > > > it take 30s.  Slowing down 15 times popcon is not acceptable.
> > > 
> > > You can invoke "dpkg -L" less often by giving multiple packages as
> > > parameters. Each set of files will be separated by an empty line.
> > 
> > Good, is that behaviour documented somewhere ?
> 
> man dpkg-query shows that multiple parameters are allowed, it does not
> explain that an empty line is the separator though.

Well, surely we cannot rely on such undocumented behaviour.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe at debian.org>

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