Re: woody + apropos
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 03:34:37AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 03:25:52AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 07:11:39PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
> > > It still might be worth a bug; the postinst only builds the database
> > > on fresh installs if man-db is not installed setuid. I don't
> > > understand that; seems like it needs a database.
> >
> > I'll change that, I suppose.
>
> I've just remembered why things are done that way in the first place.
> See #100616, which caused problems for the boot-floppies. I'll see if I
> can come up with some alternative hack which checks whether the
> noninteractive frontend is in use.
>
> However, this won't help you. On fresh installs using debootstrap, mandb
> won't be run either way, and nothing later on will run it. Perhaps
> building the database properly is a job for base-config?
Hmmm. I always wondered, why couldn't cron be set up to run its daily
job if x days went by without running it, regardless of the time it was
set to run? Or maybe it can. That would take care of this, although not
for a few days on a new install. I guess that's what anacron is supposed
to do. I just got tired of anacron hashing my disk to death every time I
started up. (I actually had a disk fail, too...)
--
*------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------*
| <http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/installmanual> |
| debian-imac (potato): <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> |
| Chris Tillman tillman@voicetrak.com |
| May the Source be with you |
*----------------------------------------------------------------*
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-request@lists.debian.org
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
Reply to: