Debian bug report logs - #1138
ncurses-runtime preinst unnecessarily slow

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Subject: Re: Bug#1138: ncurses-runtime preinst unnecessarily slow
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From: Bruce Perens <bruce@Pixar.com>


iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk said:
ncurses-runtime preinst unnecessarily slow 
> This is more efficiently done as:  find /usr/lib/terminfo ! -name 
> '*.dpkg-tmp' -type -f -print0 | \ 	xargs -r0 rm --

Hrmph. You young whipper-snappers want everything to be fast. You don't know 
how easy you have it. When I was young, I walked to school a half-mile in the 
snow. And then the only computer terminal they had in the whole school was a 
teletype
ASR-33 connected to the county computer at 300 Baud that you could use to 
write BASIC programs with no graphics. And they wouldn't let you learn BASIC 
until you'd taken calculus. Do you think that computer was fast? Why should I 
make ncurses-runtime install faster for you young punks? I waited for it to 
install, and so should you!

	Bruce :-)
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From: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
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Subject: ncurses-runtime preinst unnecessarily slow

Package: ncurses-runtime
Version: 1.9.3-0

] # Tar can't cope with existing links (there are a lot) in /usr/lib/terminfo.
] echo "This will take several minutes..."
] find /usr/lib/terminfo -! -name '*.dpkg-tmp' -type f -exec rm -f '{}' \;

This is more efficiently done as:
 find /usr/lib/terminfo ! -name '*.dpkg-tmp' -type -f -print0 | \
	xargs -r0 rm --

(Incidentally, the new C version of dpkg has no trouble overwriting
symlinks, so this kludge code will be able to go away eventually.)

Ian.