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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
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Jean-François Lemaire