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Faster guix search using an sqlite cache

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From: Pierre Neidhardt <mail <at> ambrevar.xyz>
To: zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Arun Isaac <arunisaac <at> systemreboot.net>, Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>, 39258 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#39258] [PATCH 0/4] Xapian for Guix package search
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 13:49:31 +0100

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zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Pierre,
>
> On Fri, 28 Feb 2020 at 09:13, Pierre Neidhardt <mail <at> ambrevar.xyz> wrote:
>
>> Beside this issue, how do you test it?  I guess we first need to install
>> a bunch of package with `pre-inst-env guix ...` then to a `pre-inst-env search`?
>
> It is not searching in the installed packages but in all the packages.
> So, to test it, you need to "./pre-inst-env guix pull -p" or something
> like that to populate the Xapian index database. Then "./pre-inst-env
> guix search" will lookup into.
> I mean, it is how I understand it should work. I have not yet looked
> into the code.

What I meant with "install a bunch of packages" is "guix pull -p", is
you said.  Xapian cache
is populated as a hook of guix pull if I got it correctly.

-- 
Pierre Neidhardt
https://ambrevar.xyz/

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