Bug 220761 – revdep-rebuild: Speedup by not assigning the same file several times

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Portage Development

[Description Hanno Böck 2008-05-07 14:21:32 UTC]

If several breakages occur on one file (e.g. on .la files), revdep-rebuild wants to assign it to a package several times, which heavily slows it down. Looks like this:

 * Assigning files to packages
 *   /usr/kde/3.5/lib/kde3/ark.la -> kde-base/ark
 *   /usr/kde/3.5/lib/kde3/ark.la -> kde-base/ark
 *   /usr/kde/3.5/lib/kde3/ark.la -> kde-base/ark
[...]

Between step 3 and 4, one could just insert a sort|uniq to avoid this. I've written a fast and ugly patch for it.

[Comment 1 Hanno Böck 2008-05-07 14:22:06 UTC]

Created attachment 152281 [details, diff]
speedup revdep-rebuild by doing sort|uniq between step 3 and 4

[Comment 2 Paul Varner (RETIRED) 2008-07-09 19:01:24 UTC]

$ svn commit -m "Fix revdep-rebuild to not evaluate broken objects multiple times. (Bug 220761)" ChangeLog src/revdep-rebuild/revdep-rebuild
Sending        ChangeLog
Sending        src/revdep-rebuild/revdep-rebuild
Transmitting file data ..
Committed revision 493.

[Comment 3 Paul Varner (RETIRED) 2008-07-10 16:47:41 UTC]

Released in gentoolkit-0.2.4_rc5.