🧪 Speed up apt interactions in changelog job

Author: webknjaz

.github/workflows/ci-cd.yml

@@ -440,6 +440,35 @@ jobs:
       TOXENV: make-changelog
 
     steps:
+    - name: Disable dpkg triggers to speed up apt
+      # yamllint disable rule:line-length
+      run: |
+        INITRAMFS_CONF="/etc/initramfs-tools/update-initramfs.conf"
+        DPKG_TRIGGERS="/var/lib/dpkg/triggers/File"
+
+        if [ -e $INITRAMFS_CONF ]; then
+            sudo sed -i 's/yes/no/g' $INITRAMFS_CONF
+        fi
+        echo 'set man-db/auto-update false' | sudo debconf-communicate >/dev/null
+        sudo dpkg-reconfigure man-db
+
+        if [ -e $DPKG_TRIGGERS ]; then
+            sudo sed '/fontconfig/d' -i $DPKG_TRIGGERS
+            sudo sed '/install-info/d' -i $DPKG_TRIGGERS
+            sudo sed '/mime/d' -i $DPKG_TRIGGERS
+            sudo sed '/hicolor-icon-theme/d' -i $DPKG_TRIGGERS
+        fi
+
+        echo "force-unsafe-io" | sudo tee -a /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/force-unsafe-io
+
+        if [ -a /usr/bin/eatmydata ]; then
+          echo "eatmydata available"
+          echo -e '#!/bin/sh\nexec eatmydata /usr/bin/dpkg $@' | sudo tee /usr/local/bin/dpkg && sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/dpkg
+          echo -e '#!/bin/sh\nexec eatmydata /usr/bin/apt $@' | sudo tee /usr/local/bin/apt && sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/apt
+          echo -e '#!/bin/sh\nexec eatmydata /usr/bin/apt-get $@' | sudo tee /usr/local/bin/apt-get && sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/apt-get
+        fi
+      # yamllint enable rule:line-length
+
     - name: Switch to using Python 3.11
       uses: actions/[email protected]
       with: