Linux Package Manager Command Line Comparison

Re:Linux Package Manager Command Line Comparison by klodolph on Thursday January 26, 2012 @08:43AM (#3514045)

Someone should mention package manager performance. Searching for a package in an Arch system will take a long time (10s or more) except on relatively fresh installs. It may have been fixed by now, but it was a serious point of irritation.

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Re:Linux Package Manager Command Line Comparison by Avshalom on Thursday January 26, 2012 @08:59AM (#3514108)

Were you using XFS at the time? Search has never been a problem for me even on multi year old installs, but there was (is?) something about XFS that made pacman slow to a crawl.

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Re:Linux Package Manager Command Line Comparison by klodolph on Thursday January 26, 2012 @09:05AM (#3514142)

Nope. The problem happened on multiple systems (i386, x64) regardless of filesystem (ext3, reiser), although problems only start after a few months. I found a bug in the bug tracker for it with multiple people confirming it and the "solution" was to wipe the package database manually every once in a while.

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Re:Linux Package Manager Command Line Comparison by mziulu on Thursday January 26, 2012 @09:49AM (#3514327)

In case someone else finds himself hitting this performance slowdown, try this: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32483

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Re:Linux Package Manager Command Line Comparison by clhodapp on Thursday January 26, 2012 @11:21AM (#3514677)

Running pacman-optimize (part of the base pacman package) occasionally keeps the performance at an acceptable level for me.

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Re:Linux Package Manager Command Line Comparison by lclarkmichalek on Thursday January 26, 2012 @11:11AM (#3514632)

Personally I use the zsh completion for pacman over pacman -S as it is much faster

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