On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 17:20, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > rpm.addMacro("__dbi_htconfig", "hash nofsync %{__dbi_other}
> > %{__dbi_perms}")
>
> 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 :)
>
As I suspected. Thanks for the confirmation.
Hmmm, there's no way to pass something like that via the command line is
there ? I guess the appropriate thing would be to set it in the
/etc/rpm/macros or ~/.rpmmacros. I'll give that a go and see if it
speeds up my installation script.
Thanks again.
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