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Bug 79358 - Prelink, New feature to emerge
Summary: Prelink, New feature to emerge
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Portage Development
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Core (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High enhancement (vote)
Assignee: Portage team
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Reported: 2005-01-24 10:15 UTC by INODE64 Sistemas
Modified: 2005-02-28 08:27 UTC (History)
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Initial version (prelink.diff,2.44 KB, patch)
2005-01-24 10:16 UTC, INODE64 Sistemas
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Description INODE64 Sistemas 2005-01-24 10:15:21 UTC
I have a idea to make ebuilds with feature prelink

TODO:
- Check if prelink is installed
- Prelink in a virtual directory, why run prelink in /var/tmp/portage .... and not 
in / , 
   

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1 INODE64 Sistemas 2005-01-24 10:16:04 UTC
Created attachment 49396 [details, diff]
Initial version

run with patch -p0 -d /usr/lib/portage/bin
Comment 2 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-02-28 08:27:29 UTC
Partial prelinking is not advantageous. You have to relink everything
when you change or re-merge libraries and some binaries. It's left to
the user to run the full prelinking as they see fit since it consumes
amazing quantities of time.

You're welcome to continue working on this, but you need to justify
the advantage. From previous observation and reading, prelink fails
very easily, and in the context of portage, partial prelinks are
wasteful.