Re: [MiNT] Software packaging (was: opkg / coldmint)

To: Miro Kropáček <miro.kropacek@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [MiNT] Software packaging (was: opkg / coldmint)
From: Ole <ole@monochrom.net>
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2013 23:38:19 +0100
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Am Sonntag, den 17.02.2013, 23:20 +0100 schrieb Miro Kropáček<miro.kropacek@gmail.com>:

Btw Ole is right, you can't blame opkg, everything what uses forksand
pipes is slow as hell on FreeMiNT (simple ./configure will show you
how ;)).


Well, I know more now and actually you can blame opkg.

It opens the *.ipk file several times for decompression + reading.(because you

can't seek on pipes...).

I thought I could fix this somehow, but by design, opkg opens thecompressed

file several times... :/ so even when I would make decompression

faster, it isn't going to an big improvement,... I think I'm gettinginto contact

to the opkg maintainers about this...

Greets,
Ole

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- Re: [MiNT] Software packaging (was: opkg / coldmint)
  - From: Eero Tamminen <oak@helsinkinet.fi>
- Re: [MiNT] Software packaging (was: opkg / coldmint)
  - From: Peter Slegg <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk>
- Re: [MiNT] Software packaging (was: opkg / coldmint)
  - From: Miro Kropáček <miro.kropacek@gmail.com>