Re: mandb gets stuck!
getting a little OT here but can all the man databases be converted to info
files? what can a "python" newbie do or have to follow in order to do this?
it's just a little project of mine to exercise my mind.
----- Original Message -----
From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@flatline.org.uk>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2001 6:14 PM
Subject: Re: mandb gets stuck!
> On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 11:36:08PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > on Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 04:25:01AM -0500, Colin Watson
> > (cjwatson@debian.org) wrote:
> > > I'm afraid none of that will work - it turns out it's the database
> > > (/var/cache/man/X11R6/index.bt) that's broken, not the man pages.
> >
> > How did you determine this?
>
> About two months ago, I wrote the code that is getting into a loop. ;) I
> knew it was that because of the various patterns of output he described.
> I also don't think it's possible for a broken man page to cause mandb to
> loop, although if you manage it I'd love to hear about it ...
>
> Besides, Eugene sent me the database in question, and I had a look at it
> with accessdb.
>
> --
> Colin Watson (man-db maintainer) [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
>
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