Bug#68981: dpkg: runs ldconfig way too often
This is one of the most irritating things about DPKG and I hope it
gets fixed soon. I would have put the severity even higher, but
there's probably some policy behind that. :(
On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 03:44:08PM -0600, Dwayne C. Litzenberger wrote:
> Package: dpkg
> Version: 1.6.14
> Severity: normal
>
> Post-install ldconfigs should be taken over by dpkg. ldconfig should only be
> run once at the end of an install, or prior to installing packages that
> pre-depend on newly-installed libraries. This would substantially reduce
> install times that are being slowed down by redundant ldconfig calls.
>
> -- System Information
> Debian Release: woody
> Architecture: i386
> Kernel: Linux dlitz 2.2.16 #1 Tue Jun 27 16:44:28 CST 2000 i686
>
> Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
> ii libc6 2.1.3-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
> ii libncurses5 5.0-6 Shared libraries for terminal hand
> ii libstdc++2.10 1:2.95.2-14 The GNU stdc++ library
>
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