Re: speeding repository rebuild (compared to yum)

Ville Skyttä <[email protected]> Tue, 07 Sep 2004 20:06:58 +0300
Newsgroups gmane.linux.conectiva.apt-rpm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 19:51, Marc MERLIN wrote:

> So, is there any way I can make rebuilds faster

One thing to try out would be to grant the user rebuilding the indexes
write access to the /var/cache/apt/gen*list dirs, that enables md5
caching and should speed things up quite a bit.