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