FS#26772 - Optimize heavy usage of "file" in makepkg

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Jason William Walton (jasonww) - Monday, 07 November 2011, 00:58 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Monday, 20 February 2012, 05:56 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category makepkg
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Very Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 4.0.0
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

It should be faster to package big stuff.

Optimize the usage of file and other outside commands to reduce the time of the packaging process.

Consider blacklisting certain directorys in the obvious areas (i.e /usr/include during stripping) to speed up the process.
This task depends upon

Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Monday, 20 February 2012, 05:56 GMT
Reason for closing:  No response
Additional comments about closing:  Will be reopened if numbers demonstrating useful speed benefits are provided.
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Monday, 07 November 2011, 02:20 GMT
I'd like to see some numbers here. I remember there being little difference between scanning a whitelist of directories (old approach) and the entire package (current approach), remembering all files being examined by "file" will be in the system cache at that stage...
Comment by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Monday, 07 November 2011, 15:12 GMT
There is "big stuff", and "lots of files", and from what I can reason the latter could be much more of a problem. Can you be more clear with an actual example involving size and file count numbers, please?

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