On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 09:18:29AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 15:02 +1000, Andrew Vaughan wrote:
> ....
> >
> > I actually think that the best work-around for Lenny would be
> > Esteban Manchado Velázquez's suggestion in bug 497139 of *not* reindexing
> > documentation (just register the documents) when doc-base calls dhelp with
> > more than, say, 20 files. (There is a cron.weekly job that should rebuild
> > the index).
> What are the implications of having the index either absent (for initial
> installs) or out of date?
>
> In particular, if someone installs some documents they may want to see
> them right away.
>
> Weekly seems a little infrequent to fix things up.
The only implication is that user wouldn't be able to *search* in the
search box in dhelp (i.e. any search would yield no results/obsolete results).
They would appear in the "documentation directory" and they would be
perfectly viewable. It's just that, when searching for keywords, the would not
be any results, or they would be obsolete.
> > In another email Ross Boylan wrote
> > > I just did another upgrade (within testing) that took about 2 hours
> > > because of this problem.
> >
> > I'm guessing that would have been the recent update of doc-linux to
> > 2008.08-1?
> I don't have the records anymore, but it's quite possible.
>
> Ross
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