On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 07:36:31PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 04:44:28PM +0100, Frédéric Boiteux wrote: > > I've used the '--save' command of setupcon to save it to disk (in > > /etc/console-setup/boottime.kmap.gz and now, these boot scripts run very > > quickly, > > and bootchart tells me I gained 9 seconds :-) > > > > Perhaps a mechanism could be added to save config or suggest it ? > > Setupcon uses /etc/console-setup/boottime.kmap.gz only if it is not older > than the > configuration file /etc/default/console-setup. If it is older this means the > keymap has to be regenerated. > > In order to avoid future time consuming regenerations, setupcon has to > overwrite > boottime.kmap.gz. But this file is situated in /etc so accordingly to the > policy > it is a configuration file and may not be overwriten without administrator's > knowledge. > > I'd like to ask if I can make an exception for this case. The standard > solution -- > move boottime.kmap.gz from /etc to /var -- is not available because setupcon > must > be able to work when /var is not yet mounted.
I think this would be fine. It's effectively a cache of another configuration file, and I would expect it to be fairly rare to fiddle with /etc/console-setup/boottime.kmap.gz directly, given its format. I definitely agree that the boot speed changes are worth it. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
