On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 07:28:14PM +0200, Reini Urban wrote: >Robert R Schneck schrieb: >>lex ein wrote: >>>6. If a user has by some miracle heard of 'locate', a search using >>>'locate openssh' produces no results unless the user first runs >>>'updatedb'. >> >>Would it be appropriate for the PostInstallLast part of setup which >>"updates info dir" to also run makewhatis? And perhaps even updatedb? > >Very unlikely. >These are quite massive processes in contrary to _update-info-dir > >Maybe detached in the background. Or if someone writes an updatewhatis >which gets the filelist of the new man files. Same for updatedb which >should accept a new argument for the package MANIFEST to be merged >into. > >How about other distros?
Other distros must do this somehow. It can't just be done as a result of installing a man-pages package or something. I guess, if we were really clever, we could update the apropos "database" as we are installing man pages. That would probably require some not-inconsiderable setup.exe effort, though. Boy, I started a makewhatis at the start of this message. It's been a few minutes, and it's still going. <pause> It took *seven* minutes to complete (cygwin sucks. why is it so slow? discuss amongst yourselves) I guess we really can't add this to the setup process. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/