108448 – getbinpkg caching needs optimization

Bug 108448 - getbinpkg caching needs optimization

Summary: getbinpkg caching needs optimization

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Binary packages support (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Portage team

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Depends on:	194552
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Reported:	2005-10-07 20:25 UTC by Georgi Georgiev
Modified:	2010-09-23 01:57 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Georgi Georgiev 2005-10-07 20:25:32 UTC

Currenty getbinpkg does a simple cpickle.dump and cpickle.load for all its
metadata. This is far from optimal for reasons similar to the ones already
outlined in bug #108412.

Would it be possible to rewrite that piece of caching code to use portdbapi? It
is the same kind of data after all. Maybe %encode all weird symbols ( / => %2F )
in the url and cache it as you would cache local metadata.

Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2010-09-23 01:57:16 UTC

We can consider this fixed by the new protocol (bug 194552) which uses a plain text file for cache.