Bug#507742: etcinsvk: initial run is excruciatingly slow

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

[Petter Reinholdtsen]
> Yeah.  This happen after etcinsvk was initialized for the first
> time, and after a bunch of packages was added.  This create a lot of
> new files in /etc/, and it is the process of adding/commiting these
> files that is very slow.  The slow program is svk.  I suspect it
> should be possible to recreate the slowness outside etcinsvk, but
> have not tried.

Klaus Ade asked me to document a workaround while svk is slow.  One
can use the shell in tty2 to replace /target/usr/bin/svk with a
symlink to /bin/true, to avoid the svk calls.  Ie something like this:

  mv /target/usr/bin/svk /target/usr/bin/svk.dontuse
  ln -s /bin/true /target/usr/bin/svk

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen