Comment 3 for bug 43706
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| Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote Re: Excessive memory usage | #3 |
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The reason why debconf writes a second file is so that it can rename it into place, avoiding breakage in the event that it runs out of disk space. However, it *does* have a check to avoid rewriting the file needlessly when it isn't dirty, so exactly why we end up with a templates.dat-old is a good question. I'll investigate.
I've been making some effort today to reduce the size of the templates file by stripping out stuff that's automatically built into ubiquity.templates but that isn't actually needed (e.g. base-installer/*). That may help ...