On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 09:08:10PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: > It seems that /usr/bin/update-menus now runs in the background. I ran > sudo apt-et install glade, and after it finished, I ran ps -ef |tail > -5, and the last commands running were update-menus.real, and > install-menu. > > Is it supposed to be a background job, and, if so, why?
It's always done this, as far as I know (FSVO "always"). It's a very old hack to speed up upgrades by making update-menus only run once at the end of the whole upgrade run, by checking for the dpkg lock and backgrounding itself if it's there and if there isn't already an update-menus process waiting. It could be an apt DPkg::Post-Invoke hook, but this is no good for people running 'dpkg -i' directly; really, it's an ideal use case for the as-yet-unimplemented dpkg trigger mechanism, which I believe Scott plans on implementing. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
