Re: message from ldconfig

[John Ellson <ellson research att com>]

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 ?
> >    
>
> 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.
>
> 	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