[csw-maintainers] Garbage collecting the package database

[Igor Galić]

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----- Original Message -----
> The package database stores metadata about every package ever
> analyzed
> with checkpkg. Only a small fraction of built and checked packages
> make it into catalogs, which means that there is a boatload of
> packages which are in the database, but aren't used.
> 
> I wrote a script to find and delete unused packages:
> http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/gar/changeset/19788
> 
> There were about 80k packages (defined as SVR4 .pkg files), of which
> only 16.5k are actually used in catalogs (since the stable and
> current
> catalogs are now dropped from the database). Before garbage
> collection, the compressed database dump had 815MB, and now it has
> 150MB. I'm guessing that the size reduction will also have
> performance
> benefits.
> 
> Maciej
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