[Rpm-maint] [PATCH] [RFC] 33% speedup in RPM!

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Tue Jun 26 14:32:20 UTC 2007


Michael Schroeder (mls at suse.de) said: 
> If you just want to speed up ldconfig, here's a glibc patch for you.
> We've got it in SUSE Linux since SL10.0, no problems so far.

Sure, but the best way to speed it up is to not run it. With reasonable
packaging policies, we should be able to get rid of all the %post/%postun
nonsense.

Perhaps the better tack is to use this patch as an example, change
package policies, and just remove the calls from the rpms themselves.

Bill



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