20330 – Use a lightweight DB

Bug 20330 - Use a lightweight DB

Summary: Use a lightweight DB

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Core (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	High enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Portage team

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Keywords:	InVCS

Duplicates (1):	23374 (view as bug list)
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Reported:	2003-05-02 09:43 UTC by Charles Goodwin
Modified:	2011-10-30 22:37 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Charles Goodwin 2003-05-02 09:43:08 UTC

Using a lightweight DB with portage, such as the Berkley DB, could give a number
of distinct performance improvements and extra flexibility to portage.

1) Faster searching / indexing of ebuilds
2) Rather than 1 category per application, applications could exist in multiple
categories; eg emerge -s --packages="games,console"

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2003-07-09 12:37:15 UTC

*** Bug 23374 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2003-07-09 12:38:02 UTC

Bug 23374 makes a good arguement for metakit

Comment 3 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-08-15 17:21:36 UTC

Already on the list for later.

See the anydbm module in python.

Comment 4 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-02-08 17:55:18 UTC

supposed to be fixed in 2.0.50 which is stable now. If this bug is not fixed please reopen.