DVD install takes forever compared to the CD install during the step that it's calculating packages to remove, causing pain for OEM
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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OEM Priority Project |
Fix Released
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High
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Canonical Ubuntu QA Team | ||
ubiquity (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Colin Watson |
Bug Description
This bug is related to LP#290400 . OEM is feeling real pain as they use the DVD install. The DVD install is taking an extremely long time to calculate the packages that are to be removed as compared to the CD install.
OEM tries to work around this issue the best they can by some preseed hacks to not let it remove *any* language packs, or fonts or anything during that stuff. The only packages that end up getting removed are the ubiquity ones and their dependencies. I've attached a relative snippet of the hack that OEM is using today as a workaround in there preseed:
<snip>
# *Horrible* hack to work around bug 290400
# this should be addressed for Jaunty and no longer necessary then
d-i pkgsel/
</snip>
This situation gets worst as there are future machines that are going to be using Intel Atom processors. OEM can't afford to have a 12-25 minute extra step that does nothing. It's taking that long because the atom proc is slow.
Changed in oem-priority: | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
Changed in oem-priority: | |
assignee: | nobody → canonical-qa |
Changed in somerville: | |
status: | New → Fix Released |
no longer affects: | dell |
AFAICS this is really a duplicate of #290400 rather than just related. I've added the extra tracking tasks to #290400 and will mark this as a dupe.