Debian bug report logs - #1138 ncurses-runtime preinst unnecessarily slow Package: ncurses-runtime ; Reported by: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson); 102 days old . ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message received at debian-bugs: From pixar.com!bruce Mon Jul 24 11:32:52 1995 Return-Path: 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 Subject: Re: Bug#1138: ncurses-runtime preinst unnecessarily slow 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 . ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Acknowledgement sent to Bruce Perens : Extra info received and forwarded. Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Information forwarded to debian-devel@pixar.com : Bug#1138 ; Package ncurses-runtime . Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message received at debian-bugs: From cus.cam.ac.uk!iwj10 Fri Jul 21 16:06:50 1995 Return-Path: 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 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Acknowledgement sent to iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) : New bug report received and forwarded. Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Report forwarded to debian-devel@pixar.com : Bug#1138 ; Package ncurses-runtime . Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ian Jackson / iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk , with the debian-bugs tracking mechanism This page last modified 07:43:01 GMT Wed 01 Nov