Re: Slowdown when running gconftool-2 --makefile-(un)install-rule

[Sebastien Bacher <seb128 debian org>]

Le dimanche 05 mars 2006 à 22:30 +0100, Jan de Groot a écrit :
> In archlinux, we used gconftool-2 --makefile-uninstall-rule on
> pre_upgrade of all our packages with schema files, while using
> --makefile-install-rule on post_upgrade or post_install on all schema
> files installed by the package.
> While such a process takes 10-15 seconds max per package to install with
> gconf 2.12, it takes over a minute or two to install packages with quite
> some GConf schemas on 2.13.
> 
> I guess the merged database things cause this big slowdown, as it
> generates a merge on every run of gconftool-2. What options do we have
> to speed this process up a bit?

Hi,

The Debian maintainer of gconf has sent a patch about that:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=333353


Cheers,

Sebastien Bacher