Re: Explaination of macros add for the install

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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



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