On 03/25/2017 11:52 AM, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 01:52:29AM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: >> Am 25.03.2017 um 01:17 schrieb gregor herrmann: >>> On Fri, 24 Mar 2017 23:09:37 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: >> >>>> Installing debhelper (+dependencies) takes about 5s here (on a 6 year >>>> old laptop with SSD+eatmydata). Most of that time seems to be spent in >>>> man-db's postinst. >>> >>> For pbuilder/cowbuilder I'm using >>> https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-perl/packages/pkg-perl-tools.git/tree/examples/pbuilder-hooks/D10-man-db >> >> Thanks for the hint, gregor. >> I wonder whether we could convince the cowbuilder/pbuilder maintainers >> to ship that config ootb. Have you tried that yet? > > Turns out I am doing that too on my machine, tbh I have no idea where is > that coming from, I have that hook since ages. > > Apparently sbuild has been doing that since 2010. > > I will add it to pbuilder too, on the basis that if sbuild has been > using it for 7 years, and several other developer had in pbuilder, it > must be harmless :)
iirc I read about that hook somewhere on wiki.d.o years ago. Currently it's in /usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/D80no-man-db-rebuild, which was submitted in 2009 by gregoa ;) Great if you implement that now directly. Greets jre
