Bug#229715: apt: Add a "postinst command spool"

[Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>]

reassign 229715 general
thanks

On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 06:29:00AM +0100, Pierre THIERRY wrote:

> Package: apt
> Version: 0.5.20
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> When similar packages are installed, apt is likely to run some identical
> command from the postinst scripts multiple times, and this is
> inefficiently time-consuming (e.g. mkfontdir or ldconfig).
> 
> Apt should include a manner to add some commands in a spool, and those
> commands would be run only when all packages have been unpacked.

I know of no reason why such a scheme would require any specific support
from apt.

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 - mdz