Re: woody + apropos
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 04:02:46AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> 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.
> :)
It only took about a minute on my machine, for a basic install db. I have
a 350, so that's probably slow by today's standards.
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