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Re: summary data about all packages in the repository



 >> It's easy to scan all packages and run 'make print-summary-data'
 >> for each package but this takes looooooong time.

> I'm working on a hacked version of bmake to accelerate this task.
> Some of the changes I'm making are mmap() of included makefiles
> and cacheing of certain parse information in shared memory so
> it can be reused between make invocations.

Do you really see any performance increase with this approach? How big
it is?  I think that incremental approach (based 'cvs up' logs, for
example) is much more perspective but it looks like a really big hack :)

-- 
Best regards, Aleksey Cheusov.



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