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Bug#461008: marked as done (locales: on install, perform locales generation in the background)

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and subject line Bug#461008: locales: on install, perform locales generation in the background
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Package: locales
Version: 2.7-5
Severity: wishlist

I have a dual AMD Opteron server on which I need to generate all the
available locales (I cannot predict what each user needs). This takes a
long time for each locales upgrade, during which some packages are in a
half-installed state. Perhaps the locales generation could be performed
in the background so that the rest of the installation could proceed? (I
haven't given too much thought to the implications of this, so feel free
to tell me it won't work :)

Thanks,
-- 
Fabian Fagerholm <fabbe@paniq.net>

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On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 08:24 +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> I don't think dpkg support this kind of thing. It should be possible to
> background the process without telling dpkg, but that just means we
> can't do any error handling.
>
> However, locales-all is probably the package you want to install.

We could probably come up with all sorts of interesting solutions, but
locales-all does seem to be best in this case. I guess you can always
put locales on hold, upgrade everything else, and then upgrade locales
separately. Or the other way around.

Thanks for making me think some more about this. I'm closing the bug
now. :)

-- 
Fabian Fagerholm <fabbe@paniq.net>

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