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Re: Pre-approval request for dpkg sync() changes for squeeze



* Phillip Susi (psusi@cfl.rr.com) [101025 17:00]:
> On 10/24/2010 1:20 PM, Andreas Barth wrote:
> > I quite often run dpkg installs / upgrades in pbuilder ramdisks. If
> > the sync could be reduced to only that ramdisk, everything would be
> > fine.
> 
> That's exactly the environment where you would disable syncing entirely
> since you don't care if the pbuilder chroot becomes corrupted if the
> system crashes; you will just rebuild it from the tarball anyhow.

So, what is the appropriate configuration setting for dpkg, and where
are the bug reports for our usual tools to auto-set it correct? If
there is none, this argument is moot.


Andi


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