Bug#711299: debian-installer: man-db should be installed last
Le Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 07:45:08AM +0100, Peter Krefting a écrit :
> Package: debian-installer
> Version: 20130430
> Severity: wishlist
>
> I tried installing Debian 7.0 on a system with a fairly slow disk (an Asus
> eeepc 901), so I enabled btrfs and compression, which made the install
> process go very slowly. Doing so, I noticed that the man-db triggers are
> called very many times during installation (after almost every second
> package when installing the base system, and fairly often during the regular
> install). On my configuration, each invocation took a few seconds, causing a
> noticable delay (full install took about 14 hours).
>
> If man-db was installed last, its trigger would only need to be called once,
> which would be an enormous performance win.
Dear Peter,
this should be strongly reduced since man-db 2.6.3-6, which switched to the
"noawait" type of triggers.
Have a nice day,
--
Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
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