On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 16:34 +0100, Glen Gray wrote:
> I was looking through the packages.py code at the installation code and
> noticed this piece of code
>
> rpm.addMacro("__dbi_htconfig", "hash nofsync %{__dbi_other}
> %{__dbi_perms}")
>
> I was wondering if someone could explain what that does for the
> installation process ?
It speeds things up by changing some of the properties of the Berkeley
DB access. It's a little bit less safe in case of power failure or
weird things like that, but at the same time, if you get a power failure
during install, you're going to have other large problems anyway :)
Jeremy
