Re: woody + apropos
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 07:54:46PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
> On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 03:34:37AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > 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...)
There might be another way. At the time that bug was filed, I thought
that DEBIAN_FRONTEND=Noninteractive just meant that the noninteractive
frontend was in use, so I discarded the option of running mandb in the
foreground if that was set. I now realize that debconf doesn't set that
itself, but just pays attention to it when debootstrap does it. This
makes running mandb in the foreground a lot more acceptable.
I'll change that and see how it goes; easier than changing base-config.
:)
Thanks,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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