[maemo-developers] CSSU: optification of /var/lib/dpkg and /var/lib/apt

[From: Jan Knutar]

On Tuesday 05 April 2011, Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Jan Knutar <jknutar at nic.fi> wrote:
> > I wonder if de-optifying it will make HAM stop "Checking for
> > updates" after every single tap in the interface...
> 
> I filed a bug about that,
>  https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11463
> 
> In my case I found a possible reason: I had changed the update
> interval to a really huge number. I changed it to a lesser number and
> then App Manager stopped checking after every single action.
> 
> Of course it is still slow as hell and apt-worker is using 100% for
> several minutes, but that's "normal". I use fapman anyway for
> everything except for PR updates.

In my case the update interval is at the default of 1440, and it still 
does "Checking for updates" for everything, even when I don't do any 
installing or uninstalling.