message from ldconfig

[John Ellson]

Jakub Jelinek wrote:

>On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 01:14:59PM -0400, John Ellson wrote:
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>>How about the other problem that was highlighted by this bug:  the 
>>excessive invocations
>>of  /sbin/ldconfig by rpm causing rpm to run like molasses ?
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>I don't think ldconfig invocations slow things down as you describe.
>If the lib directories are in caches, /sbin/ldconfig takes like 100msec.
>Not running ldconfig after each installed rpm with shared libraries
>might cause an installation problem - some libraries needed by rpm
>scriptlets could be not found.
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>	Jakub
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But if the cache has been invalidated ldconfig takes about 45 seconds 
(on my system).

Why not collect up all post-install scripts, then run ldconfig once after
all rpms have been installed just before running the post-install scripts?

John