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Re: [MiNT] opkg / coldmint



On Sunday 17 February 2013 18:06:06 Ole wrote:
>  Am Samstag, den 16.02.2013, 18:13 +0100 schrieb Jean-François Lemaire

>  <jflemaire@skynet.be>:
> > If OPKG is also very slow, well, this means RPM wins by a mile the
> > real-world
> > usability contest :-)

>  Also, I don't think it is fair to just blame the opkg installation tool
>  here...
>  I think this is an perfomance issue inside the kernel regarding fork()
>  and reading/writing to pipes.
>  The bad thing is, I don't want to have the situation that opkg only
>  runs well on the latest
>  kernel where this was fixed...

Why not? If there's a critical (and what you describe seems critical) bug in 
the kernel, a fixed version of the kernel must be released and users 
encouraged to upgrade.

>  (and also I'm not able to fix it). So I
>  will try to
>  patch opkg to make it faster. (I think my workaround will be, to not
>  use pipe()/fork(),
>  but to use libz directly, or something like that.)

I'll wait for your modified version to try it out, then. I'm looking forward 
to it.

Cheers,
JFL
-- 
Jean-François Lemaire