apt-get

[James Livingston]

On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 09:32 -0800, John Augustine wrote:
> Alex Mauer wrote:
> > One thing I've noticed along these lines is that a lot of the "setting
> > up phase" time is taken up with running 'ldconfig' each time a library
> > package is installed.  I think this could be optimized a lot by running
> > 'ldconfig' only once per install session, after all library packages (or
> > a dependency-based batch of them are installed.  Anyone see any problems
> > with this?
>
> Sounds like this would involve removing ldconfig from the
> postinst/postrm scripts in the package.  Not sure if this is acceptable,
> but a new process would have to be implemented where apt detects
> libraries being installed and runs ldconfig after they are all installed.

There will also be some dependency issues. Say you're two packages A and
B, where B depends on A. What if package B has an installation script
that requires A to be /completely/ installed (e.g. ldconfig has been
run)?

Figuring out whether it is safe to delay running ldconfig might be more
work that it is worth.


Cheers,

James "Doc" Livingston
-- 
"25 grams of wafers and 20 ml of wine undergo transubstantiation and
become the flesh and blood of our Lord. How many Joules of heat are
released by the transformation?" --Theological Physics exam, 1997
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