[buildd-tools-devel] [PATCH] create-chroot: switch dpkg unsafe io on by default
Roger Leigh
rleigh at codelibre.net
Wed Jun 6 12:19:50 UTC 2012
On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 03:15:05PM +0300, Riku Voipio wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 12:58:56PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
> > Thanks for the patch. We should probably implement this directly
> > in sbuild though--we already have a mechanism for setting these
> > which would be better placed than in the chroot creation script.
>
> Ok, makes sense. I just added it the same place where the force-confnew
> was being set.
No worries--it's fine to do it this way if you want to.
> > BTW, more generically, one can now use "command-prefix=eatmydata"
> > and install eatmydata into the chroot.
>
> Ok, I'll look at that as an option.
The advantage of this approach is that it works for every single
command run in the chroot using LD_PRELOAD, so it can potentially
speed up all operations, not just dpkg.
Regards,
Roger
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