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On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Thomas Goirand <zigo at debian.org> wrote:
> On 07/16/2013 12:07 PM, Michael Still wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Thomas Goirand <zigo at debian.org> wrote:
>>
>>> In Debian, by policy, any package should be able to be installed using
>>> DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install. What I do in my postinst
>>> is calling db_sync, because that isn't something our users should even
>>> care about, since it can be automated. The final result is that, for
>>> many package like Keystone and Glance, simply doing "apt-get install" is
>>> enough to make it work, without needing any configuration file edition.
>>> I want to be able to keep that nice feature.
>>
>> Is there any policy about how long a package can take to install?
>
> No.

Hmmm. Ok. I do think its something for you to track though.

>> db_sync might make many minutes for large installations. For example,
>> folsom -> grizzly takes about 7 minutes in my tests.
>
> Gosh!!! I haven't experienced that! Or is it that my upgrade path was
> broken somehow? :) I shall test more.

That's with a DB that records 30 million instances. If you're using a
trivial test database then you're not replicating the experience for a
real deployment.

Michael

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