Re: Unblock request for dhelp
Esteban Manchado Velázquez wrote:
> As I haven't received any response, I'm trying with a more evident subject,
> just in case the mail went unnoticed :-)
>
> There is a bug in dhelp (#487722) that makes dhelp wait for hours when
> upgrading packages that have "a lot" of documentation. That might be just
> doc-linux-html or similar, or possibly a combination of other packages that
> together contain many document files registered through doc-base. That means
> that many people (for some definition of "many") will have to wait for hours
> if/when they upgrade to Lenny, because of this bug.
>
> The proposed fix (not uploaded yet) is to drop indexing documentation on
> package installation/upgrade. The documentation, then, would only be indexed
> once a week. It's a suboptimal solution, but the patch is very small and safe,
> and I don't want to risk going for a better solution (indexing in the
> background or whatever) if that could mean shipping a broken dhelp.
Yes, that would be acceptable. Though it would be good to add something
to README.Debian about it to explain how one can avoid waiting on the
weekly cronjob and run the index update manually.
Cheers
Luk
> Leaving part of the thread below to give more context...
>
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 02:26:01PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
>> On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 23:04 +0200, Esteban Manchado Velázquez wrote:
>>> Cc'ing debian-release, seeking advice...
>> It would be very interesting to hear what they have to say, and whether
>> testing has turned up this problem.
>>> Intro for debian-release: this bug makes dhelp wait for potentially
>>> *hours* when upgrading (many packages). That means that if someone upgrades
>>> from Etch to Lenny, they will have to wait for a couple of hours for the dhelp
>>> postinst, while it's asking index++ to reindex all documents for all installed
>>> packages.
>> I'm not sure how widespread the problem will be. For example, I have a
>> lot of linux documentation and standards files installed; maybe people
>> without that will not have long to wait.
>>
>> I just did another upgrade (within testing) that took about 2 hours
>> because of this problem.
>>
>> Ross
>>> This will happen to virtually everyone having dhelp installed if they
>>> dist-upgrade to Lenny. Or anyone doing any reasonably big upgrade for that
>>> matter.
>>>
>>
>
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