[csw-maintainers] Faster catalog generation

[Peter FELECAN]

"Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński" <maciej at opencsw.org> writes:

> I spent some time yesterday working on the buildfarm[1], and managed
> to remove one bottleneck and cut down the catalog generation time from
> ~80 minutes to ~32 minutes. The new (and current) bottleneck seems to
> be what I described in [2]: mass unlinking and relinking of files.
>
> There's also a new HTTP endpoint:
> /rest/catalogs/([^/]+)/(sparc|i386)/(SunOS[^/]+)/for-generation/
>
> (Prefix: http://buildfarm.opencsw.org/pkgdb/)
>
> It's quite quick to return and returns all information necessary to
> generate a catalog.
>
> Maciej
>
> [1] https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/gar/changeset/21086
> [2] http://lists.opencsw.org/pipermail/maintainers/2013-May/018016.html

Does this invalidate the project that you proposed in [2] ?
-- 
Peter