[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#544046: Bug#544046: mailman: postinst find takes far too long

[Thijs Kinkhorst]

Hi Paul,

> paul at mail:~$ ps -fe | grep find
> root      6846  5473  9 12:50 pts/0    00:00:39 find /var/lib/mailman/
> -type d -exec chmod g+s {} ; paul     11875 31817  0 13:01 pts/48  
> 00:00:00 grep find
>
> It's still running. Ah, at 13:03 it's done.

> is more efficient, is there an expectation that the permissions may have
> become wrong somehow during the months mailman was running? If so, isn't
> a cron job to take care of this more appropriate? If not, why do this
> upon a simple upgrade from 1:2.1.11-2 -> 1:2.1.11-11 ?

Thanks for reporting this. The find is indeed superfluous, if something has 
changed the permissions meanwhile than that should be fixed, but I'm not 
aware of any such processes. Fixing it upon upgrade is quite arbitrary.

The problem is that current mailman packaging is full of legacy that 
accumulated over many years. This find has been in there since the beginning 
of our SVN history. We're removing such legacy bit by bit and have been 
making significant progress since sarge. However, there's still more to do 
and this kind of bug reports really helps to highlight items that can be done 
better.

> I;m just happy that apache was not also upgraded at the same time, as it
> probably would have been stopped during this whole time. That would have
> sucked.

It would - but I wonder if it's actually necessary at all for Apache to be 
down during an upgrade of unrelated packages. Will investigate.


cheers,
Thijs
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