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<p></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Fink_Header}}<br /> <br /> ===What is it?===<br /> <br /> Lets Fink read only new .info files instead of all of them. Also lets Fink load just the part of the package DB that it needs.<br /> <br /> ===Testing it===<br /> <br /> * parameters<br /> ** index (write only) or other load (read/write)<br /> ** root or non-root<br /> ** different versions of fink<br /> ** with/without autoindex<br /> ** full or partial or proxy run<br /> <br /> * race conditions<br /> ** run multiple finks at once<br /> <br /> * exceptional cases<br /> ** rsync: files updated to earlier mtime than last index<br /> ** FinkCommander: needs whole DB, caching<br /> ** forget and re-load<br /> <br /> * missing stuff and dealing with it<br /> ** index.db<br /> ** proxies.db<br /> ** finkinfo dir, or files within<br /> <br /> * package has<br /> ** proxy stuff (name, version)<br /> ** loadable stuff (dumpinfo)<br /> <br /> {{Fink_Header}}<br /> <br /> [[Category: Fink|Roadmap 0.25 Incremental Indexing]]<br /> [[Category: Fink Roadmap|0.25 Incremental Indexing]]<br /> [[Category: Fink Internals|Incremental Indexing]]</div>

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