apply a very simple speed-up in case we try to set the candidate version

of a package to the version which is already the candidate
(apt-get does that for all packages it installs for simplicity)

diff --git a/apt-pkg/depcache.cc b/apt-pkg/depcache.cc
index 23abc76..58e7ebf 100644 (file)
--- a/apt-pkg/depcache.cc
+++ b/apt-pkg/depcache.cc
@@ -1510,11 +1510,15 @@ void pkgDepCache::SetReInstall(PkgIterator const &Pkg,bool To)
 /* */
 void pkgDepCache::SetCandidateVersion(VerIterator TargetVer, bool const &Pseudo)
 {
-   ActionGroup group(*this);
 
    pkgCache::PkgIterator Pkg = TargetVer.ParentPkg();
    StateCache &P = PkgState[Pkg->ID];
 
+   if (P.CandidateVer == TargetVer)
+      return;
+
+   ActionGroup group(*this);
+
    RemoveSizes(Pkg);
    RemoveStates(Pkg);
 
@@ -1549,7 +1553,10 @@ void pkgDepCache::SetCandidateVersion(VerIterator TargetVer, bool const &Pseudo)
       }
    }
 }
-
+                                                                       /*}}}*/
+// DepCache::MarkAuto - set the Auto flag for a package                        /*{{{*/
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------
+/* */
 void pkgDepCache::MarkAuto(const PkgIterator &Pkg, bool Auto)
 {
   StateCache &state = PkgState[Pkg->ID];