Debian bug report logs - #1138 , boring messages ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent to debian-devel@pixar.com: Subject: Bug#1138: ncurses-runtime preinst unnecessarily slow Reply-To: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson), debian-bugs@pixar.com Resent-To: debian-devel@pixar.com Resent-From: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) Resent-Sender: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk Resent-Date: Sat, 22 Jul 1995 01:03:02 GMT Resent-Message-ID: X-Debian-PR-Package: ncurses-runtime X-Debian-PR-Keywords: Received: via spool for debian-bugs; Sat, 22 Jul 1995 01:03:02 GMT Received: with rfc822 via encapsulated-mail id 0722005910392; Sat, 22 Jul 1995 00:59:10 GMT Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0sZR9e-000B81C; Fri, 21 Jul 95 16:06 PDT Received: from bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk by pixar.com with SMTP id AA15712 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Fri, 21 Jul 1995 16:05:12 -0700 Received: by bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk (Smail-3.1.29.0 #36) id m0sZQ2h-000C0eC; Fri, 21 Jul 95 22:55 BST Received: by chiark id (Debian /\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.32); Fri, 21 Jul 95 21:27 BST Message-Id: Date: Fri, 21 Jul 95 21:27 BST From: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: Debian bugs submission address 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent: From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) Subject: Bug#1138: Acknowledgement (was: ncurses-runtime preinst unnecessarily slow) In-Reply-To: References: Thank you for the problem report you have sent regarding Debian GNU/Linux. This is an automatically generated reply, to let you know your message has been received. It is being forwarded to the developers' mailing list for their attention; they will reply in due course. If you wish to submit further information on your problem, please send it to debian-bugs@pixar.com, but please ensure that the Subject line of your message starts with "Bug#1138" or "Re: Bug#1138" so that we can identify it as relating to the same problem. Please do not reply to the address at the top of this message, unless you wish to report a problem with the bug-tracking system. Ian Jackson (maintainer, debian-bugs) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent to debian-devel@pixar.com: Subject: Bug#1138: ncurses-runtime preinst unnecessarily slow Reply-To: Bruce Perens , debian-bugs@pixar.com Resent-From: Bruce Perens Resent-To: debian-devel@pixar.com Resent-Date: Mon, 24 Jul 1995 18:48:02 GMT Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk X-Debian-PR-Package: ncurses-runtime X-Debian-PR-Keywords: Received: via spool for debian-bugs; Mon, 24 Jul 1995 18:48:02 GMT Received: with rfc822 via encapsulated-mail id 072418350014058; Mon, 24 Jul 1995 18:35:00 GMT Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0saSJA-0005TGC; Mon, 24 Jul 95 11:32 PDT Received: from mongo.pixar.com by pixar.com with SMTP id AA25708 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Mon, 24 Jul 1995 11:31:18 -0700 Received: by mongo.pixar.com (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0saSHY-0005TGC; Mon, 24 Jul 95 11:31 PDT Message-Id: X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.2 7/18/95 To: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson), debian-bugs@Pixar.com Cc: bruce@Pixar.com In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 21 Jul 1995 21:27:00 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 24 Jul 1995 11:31:12 -0700 From: Bruce Perens 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 :-) -- -- Attention Ham Radio Operators: For information on "Linux for Hams", read -- the World Wide Web page http://www.hams.com/perens/LinuxForHams, or send -- an e-mail message containing the word "help" to info@hams.com . ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent: From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: Bruce Perens Subject: Bug#1138: Info received (was Bug#1138: ncurses-runtime preinst unnecessarily slow) In-Reply-To: References: Thank you for the additional information you have supplied regarding this problem report. It has been forwarded to the developers to accompany the original report. If you wish to continue to submit further information on your problem, please do the same thing again: send it to debian-bugs@pixar.com, ensuring that the Subject line starts with "Bug#1138" or "Re: Bug#1138" so that we can identify it as relating to the same problem. Please do not reply to the address at the top of this message, unless you wish to report a problem with the bug-tracking system. Ian Jackson (maintainer, debian-bugs) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ian Jackson / iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk , with the debian-bugs tracking mechanism This page last modified 07:43:01 GMT Wed 01 Nov