Joachim Breitner a écrit : > Hi, > > Am Montag, den 20.07.2009, 17:56 +0200 schrieb Joachim Breitner: >> I was under the impression that locales-all’s purpose is to be installed >> on machines too weak to compile the locales tables themselves. >> Nevertheless, the postinst for locales-all extracts a large armound of >> data to /tmp (which these days, especially on mobilde devices, often is >> a tmpfs) calls localedef. >> >> (I admit I can’t check which one is causing more problems, because the >> device does not react at the moment). >> >> Would it be possible to have locales-all completely static? Or maybe >> otherwise reduce the workload to be done at postinst time? > > ok, it is the extracting that’s the issue here, the localedef call is > not fast, but does not exceed any resources. > > So, can’t locales-all just ship /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive > completely?
That's an option, but it means someone has to work on patching locales generation tools, as it is currently not possible to create /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive during the build. > Alternatively, the load on /tmp could be reduced considerably by > something like this in postinst (untested pseudocode): > > if [ "$1" = "configure" ]; then > [ -d /usr/lib/locale ] || mkdir /usr/lib/locale > # Remove existing locales, otherwise localedef does not > # overwrite them and exits with a non-null value > rm -f /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive 2>/dev/null || true > tmpdir=$(mktemp -d -t locales.XXXXXXXXXX) > trap 'rm -rf "$tmpdir" > /dev/null 2>&1' exit > for locale in list of locales filled here at compile time > do > tar --use-compress-program /usr/bin/lzma -xf > /usr/lib/locales-all/supported.tar.lzma -C "$tmpdir" ./$locale > localedef --quiet --add-to-archive "$tmpdir"/$locale > rm -rf "$tmpdir"/$locale > done > fi > That means supported.tar.lzma will be "unlzmaed" a lot of time, eating a lot of CPU resources. -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
