Use dlocate where available, instead of dpkg search #1578
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The
dpkg -S
call is really slow, taking some 500ms per call.Using
dlocate -F
is better, still not fast but tolerable (grep)This a problem for podman version and info, which calls PackageVersion a lot (more than 10 times)
When using a database, like rpm, there is no particular overhead. But when using files: 5 seconds