Re: A apt-0.5.15cnc6 problem in Fedora Core 2

On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 12:15, Steven Shiau wrote:
> Hi...
> I am trying to install a 2.6.8 kernel into atypical directory so that it
> can share to other diskless machine. Here it's my procedure:
> In Fedora Core 2 (i386), the apt comes from
> apt-0.5.15cnc6-0.1.fc1.fr.i386.rpm
> 
> 1. To avoid to re-install some base packages, I copy RPM DB to cheat the
> apt-get like this:
> rsync -a /var/lib/rpm /tftpboot/node_root/var/lib/
> 2. Then I run this:
> apt-get -y --reinstall -o RPM::RootDir=/tftpboot/node_root/ -o
> RPM::Install-Options::=--force -o RPM::Install-Options::=--nodeps -o
> RPM::Install-Options::=--noscripts install kernel#2.6.8-1.521
> 
> But it takes very long time to do that, in a P4 2.6 GHz machine, almost
> 30 minutes... or more...
> 
> However, if I run the followinig in the Fedora Core 1, it runs very
> quickly...
> rsync -a /var/lib/rpm /tftpboot/node_root/var/lib/
> apt-get -y --reinstall -o RPM::RootDir=/tftpboot/node_root/ -o
> RPM::Install-Options::=--force -o RPM::Install-Options::=--nodeps -o
> RPM::Install-Options::=--noscripts install kernel#2.4.22-1.2199.nptl
> 
> How can I solve it ?
> Thanks in advance.

Almost 30 minutes to install a package sounds really weird.. FC2 kernels
do take a very long time to install compared to FC1 because of running
hardlink in %post. Which shouldn't happen since you're using
--noscripts.

I'd suggest stracing it with timestamping on to see where the time is
spent, then we have some sort of chance to figure out what's wrong.
Basically 'strace -o /tmp/apt.trace -f -t apt-get ....' and then look at
/tmp/apt.trace timestamps.

	- Panu -