On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 10:46:41PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > The debian installation can be made faster by using eatmydata during > installation. What about creating a eatmydata-udeb package for the > installer with a post-baseinstaller.d script and a finish-install.d > script to make the installer run in a eatmydata environment when > installing packages into /target/? > > <URL: > http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Speeding_up_the_Debian_installer_using_eatmydata_and_dpkg_divert.html > > > sketches the idea and include some benchmarks on the overall effect on > the installer. Note that the dpkg-divert method is not really needed, > one can add a apt.conf.d file to replace dpkg with a wrapper instead. > See the debian-edu-install package and the tools/edu-eatmydata-install > script for a working installation.
Yeah, I quite like the idea!
> As the mechanism isn't Debian Edu specific, I propose to move the code
> into eatmydata instead and allow those of us willing to use eatmydata
> with the installer to enable this by adding the eatmydata-udeb to the
> list of active installation modules.
I'm ok with that.
I had the occasion to try to something, but i failed at finding docs and
examples enough for me to accomplish something.
I'd really welcome a patch with something, plus pointers to how to do stuff
that integrates into d-i, even incomplete, so then i can catch up.
Feel free to just commit to a topic branch in git if you (or somebody else)
wants to do try :)
ps. sorry if this took so long :|
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