Package: eatmydata Version: 26-1 Severity: wishlist The debian installation can be made faster by using eatmydata during installation. What about creating a eatmydata-udeb package for the installer with a post-baseinstaller.d script and a finish-install.d script to make the installer run in a eatmydata environment when installing packages into /target/?
<URL: http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Speeding_up_the_Debian_installer_using_eatmydata_and_dpkg_divert.html > sketches the idea and include some benchmarks on the overall effect on the installer. Note that the dpkg-divert method is not really needed, one can add a apt.conf.d file to replace dpkg with a wrapper instead. See the debian-edu-install package and the tools/edu-eatmydata-install script for a working installation. As the mechanism isn't Debian Edu specific, I propose to move the code into eatmydata instead and allow those of us willing to use eatmydata with the installer to enable this by adding the eatmydata-udeb to the list of active installation modules. -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
