-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 12:41:21PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: >[Vagrant Cascadian] >> when installing debian-edu, the initial run of etcinsvk is so slow it >> seems like the install is frozen. i definitely have let it run for at >> least 20 or more minutes with no visible progress. > >Yeah. This happen after etcinsvk was initialized for the first time, >and after a bunch of packages was added. This create a lot of new >files in /etc/, and it is the process of adding/commiting these files >that is very slow. The slow program is svk. I suspect it should be >possible to recreate the slowness outside etcinsvk, but have not tried. > >> could parts of /etc be handled incrementally (i.e. subdirs of /etc) >> to speed it up a bit? > >I have no idea if this will improve the situation or not.
Has the alternative etckeeper been considered for new installs? Haven't done a comparison, but speed is generally one of the benefits of Git that etckeeper uses as backend. - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkk3ymYACgkQn7DbMsAkQLipxQCeMdOp4XD1fFRtXLCnIFgfDggG PDQAnA8ECDWaMFBS9Z02XsyCaKcFB/IM =JpH+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
