This commit implements multiple performance improvements
to the transaction code:
- Don't process xbps_pkg_name() N times each time we access
its package dictionary (via pkgdb or rpool), just do it once
at xbps_pkgdb_init() time. At pkgdb init time, it just creates
a property in pkgdb, "pkgname". At rpool time, each time a
package is accessed, the "pkgname" string property is added.
- The package transaction dictionary contains the "transaction"
object to know what's the pkg type. This has been changed to an
uint8, this simplifies the logic and it's faster than checking
a string object. See xbps_trans_type_t and xbps_transaction_pkg_type().
- Fixed the issue that was marked with XXX in transaction shlibs
checking code. This has been fixed and improved and resources are
now just freed as expected.
- Simplified random code all over the place, avoiding unnecessary
allocations or operations.
- Rename some transaction files to have a better description.
This is my first rototill to the code in 2020.
The funcs xbps_pkg_name() and xbps_pkgpattern_name() were
using malloc(3) to return the result, until now.
They now have been changed to not allocate the result
via malloc, the caller is responsible to provide a buffer
at least of XBPS_NAME_SIZE (64).
If for whatever reason the pkgname can't be guessed,
returns false. This should avoid lots of small allocs
around libxbps.
New functions have the following prototype:
bool xbps_pkg_name(char *dst, size_t len, const char *pkg)
bool xbps_pkgpattern_name(char *dst, size_t len, const char *pkg)
as suggested by @duncaen.
It was made many years ago to update the pkgdb format, but
it's innecessary to build it by default because is dead code.
Anyway keep it just in case pkgdb format changes.
These routines return a xbps_array_t with a full sorted dependency graph
for the target pkg, by querying pkgdb or rpool.
Update xbps-query(8) to use the new libxbps API.
This effectively checks that all pkgs in a transaction to be installed
or updated, have not unmatched shared libraries, which might happen with
pkgs that had major soname bumps.
This implementation slow downs xbps_transaction_prepare() 2x, due to
the use of xbps_pkgdb_get_pkg_metadata(). A new pkgdb format is required
that adds the pkg shlib-provides objects to pkgdb, avoiding the need
to use xbps_pkgdb_get_pkg_metadata().
The list of required external deps is now confuse, libarchive and openssl.
libxbps now includes a wrapper for proplib prefixed with xbps_ rather than prop_.
These are the core interfaces in the new API:
rpool - Interface to interact with the repository pool.
rindex - Interface to interact with repository indexes.
pkgdb - Interface to interact with local packages.
transaction - Interface to interact with a transaction.
This also brings new repository index format, making the index file
per architecture and being incompatible with previous versions.
The transaction frequency flush option has been removed, and due to
the nature of package states it was causing more harm than good.
More changes coming soon, but the API shall remain stable from now on.
