The old function was written in a time before we relied on it for nearly
every operation. Since then, we have switched to the archive backend and now
fast parsing is a big deal.
The former function made a per-character call to the libarchive
archive_read_data() function, which resulted in some 21 million calls in a
typical "load all sync dbs" operation. If we instead do some buffering of
our own and read the blocks directly, and then find our newlines from there,
we can cut out the multiple layers of overhead and go from archive to parsed
data much quicker.
Both users of the former function are switched over to the new signature,
made easier by the macros now in place in the sync backend parsing code.
Performance: for a `pacman -Su` (no upgrades available),
_alpm_archive_fgets() goes from being 29% of the total time to 12% The time
spent on the libarchive function being called dropped from 24% to 6%.
This pushes _alpm_pkg_find back to the title of slowest low-level function.
Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
This simplifies a lot of the repetative code and makes it obvious where the
tricky or different ones are (e.g. depends, dates). It also makes it
significantly easier to change the way this code works in the future.
There should be no functional change with this patch.
Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
Rather than error out, this is easy enough. Looks quite similar to the code
in be_local for creating the local directory.
Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
Whether it be "desc", "depends", or "deltas", it really doesn't matter-
treat them all the same and have the ability to read any data from any file
in that list. This continues the work in a44c7b8956.
Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
We were including the header in a lot of places it is no longer used.
Additionally, use the correct autoconf macro for determining whether
d_type is available as a member: HAVE_STRUCT_DIRENT_D_TYPE.
Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
This will allow us to eventually combine the depends and desc entries
within the sync database.
Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
This will allow for better control of what was previously the 'force' option
in a PKGBUILD and transferred into the built package.
Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
The splitname function is a general utility function and so is better
suited to util.h. Rename it to _alpm_splitname to indicate it is an
internal libalpm function as was the case prior to splitting local and
sync db handling.
Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
Read in list of packages for sync db from tar archive.
Breaks reading in _alpm_sync_db_read and a lot of pactests (which
is expected as they do not handle sync db in archives...).
Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
Put the db_operations struct to use and completely split the handling
of the sync and local databases.
Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
The file be_files.c is "split" to be_local.c and be_sync.c in order
to achieve separate handling of sync and local databases.
Some basic clean-up of functions that are only of use for local or
sync databases has been performed and some rough function renaming
in duplicated code has been performed to prevent compilation errors.
However, most of the clean-up and final separation of sync and local
db handling occurs in following patches.
Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
