Re: Porting Debian Packages

[Justus Winter]

Hi Tanguy :)

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Quoting Tanguy LE CARROUR (2012-01-18 10:19:14)
>For sure, once it builds on Linux I have to try it on Hurd.
>But the build process take longer in my qemu. And I'm used to use pbuild which
>is also a bit of an overhead.
>
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>I do the same but all network related processes are waaaay slower! 
>"apt-get update" take ages! Same when I went to download a package
>dependencies!
>
>Anyway I have first to get comfortable with the "fix/build/create
>patch" process before moving to a "currently slower" environment!

Running kvm/qemu with -drive [...],cache=writeback results in an
enormous speedup. I found the hint in the gnu hurd wiki, but
unfortunately it is unavailable today.

Justus