On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 04:25:47PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > yep. > > in pseduo-perl > > if (mtime of /var/lib/dpkg/dlocatedb < mtime of /var/lib/dpkg/status) { > system("/usr/sbin/update-dlocatedb") > } ; > # now carry on with whatever it is that needed dlocate -S to be > # up-to-date. > this would only work if run by root. perhaps it would be better to fallback on the slower dpkg -S when the dlocatedb is old. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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