looking for some people to do some testing

[Michał Zając]

I just copypasted the line and the apt-get update took ~7 seconds longer
than expected. If I get any corruption or any magical problems I will
report back


On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Harald Sitter <apachelogger at ubuntu.com>
wrote:

> https://trello.com/c/W1ZdDudj
>
> to get some preliminary data it would be very lovely if everyone who's
> interested could create an update hook that should be relatively safe
> to use:
>
>  cat /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/90xapian
> APT::Update::Post-Invoke-Success { "if [ -x
> /usr/sbin/update-apt-xapian-index ]; then update-apt-xapian-index -u;
> fi" }
>
> this will make sure that the search index used by qapt and friends is
> updated whenever apt-get update finished successfully. Simply check
> the last couple of lines of your update output to see what apt-xapian
> has to say.
>
> I am particularly looking for any cases where the updater would report
> database corruption or you think that it takes too long or causes too
> much disk access. Generally speaking the updates are conducted
> incrementally so they should be relatively fast. Assuming apt-xapian
> works as well as I believe the hook will only slow apt-get update down
> a bit (<10 seconds on most systems I'd say).
>
> example output:
> ....
> Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net utopic/main i386 Packages
> Reading .desktop files from /usr/share/app-install/desktop/: done.
> Reading Xapian index: done.
> Updating Xapian index: done.
> Reading package lists... Done
>
> In case you wondered about the command.... the final hook command I
> would actually imagine to set appropriate IO niceness and fork so that
> it doesn't block apt-get update at all and doesn't otherwise interfere
> with system usage but for this test I'd like it to be as prominent as
> possible.
>
> Also, I doubt this epic will land before 15.04 because ideally it'd be
> done globally for all of ubuntu if at all possible.
>
> HS
>
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