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#1 2010-07-15 10:36:56

krzd
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Registered: 2010-03-18
Posts: 9

Pacman very slow

Hello,
since about a month I feel, that pacman gets very slow. It takes almost 3 minutes for an update. The package lists are downloaded directly but then you have to wait, even if there aren't no updates or no new package lists.
Additionally, if I do a pacman -Qs it seems that every package is from local, but it is not.
A pacman-optimize didn't bring any effect.
What can I do?

Thanks in advance

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#2 2010-07-15 10:38:46

karol
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Registered: 2009-05-06
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Re: Pacman very slow

> Additionally, if I do a pacman -Qs it seems that every package is from local, but it is not.
IIRC -Qs searches only local.

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#3 2010-07-15 10:44:24

krzd
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Registered: 2010-03-18
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Re: Pacman very slow

karol wrote:

> Additionally, if I do a pacman -Qs it seems that every package is from local, but it is not.
IIRC -Qs searches only local.

-Qs searches all, -Qm searches only local.
-Qm shows me only a few, those which are really local.
-Qs shows me all my 500 packages, but all marked as local.

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#4 2010-07-15 10:48:31

maxi_jac
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Registered: 2008-08-02
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#5 2010-07-15 10:53:45

krzd
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Registered: 2010-03-18
Posts: 9

Re: Pacman very slow

Strange thing that -Syyu is faster, but a) it shouldn't and b) it's not the preferred way.
I also don't prefer to take pacman-cage.
So I think this is a bug, am I right?

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#6 2010-07-15 11:10:52

Allan
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From: Brisbane, AU
Registered: 2007-06-09
Posts: 11,672
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Re: Pacman very slow

krzd wrote:
karol wrote:

> Additionally, if I do a pacman -Qs it seems that every package is from local, but it is not.
IIRC -Qs searches only local.

-Qs searches all, -Qm searches only local.
-Qm shows me only a few, those which are really local.
-Qs shows me all my 500 packages, but all marked as local.

You need to do a "man pacman".

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#7 2010-07-15 11:13:24

Allan
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Registered: 2007-06-09
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Re: Pacman very slow

And to clarify what has happened.   Only the needed files are extracted in the repo update.   That speeds that part up a lot.   Unfortunately, that means that the system now does not have the now unextracted files cached and so it has to read them.   We are fixing this.

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