On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgrif...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Andreas Radke <a.ra...@arcor.de> wrote: >> I'm almost for changing to man-db. We would just have to decide how to >> update the db. How is this currently done for "man"? In pacman? Could >> this be easily changed/added for man-db? If not what would be the >> generic proto hook for a post.install call? Has anybody tried the AUR >> pkg: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=9343 ? > > man doesn't maintain a DB. man-db actually can work without the DB > too. I *think* we could get away with a drop-in replacement. See > comments here: > http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9130 > > I don't have as much information as I'd like, but right now this seems > like a good idea. As Colin stated - Debian got away for quite a while > without updating the database. I would suggest we simply add a daily > cron job to update the DB. If a user is running cron, then "whatis" > and "apropos" work fine. If not, they need to update the db > themselves. >
Yup, the only thing missing from the AUR man-db package is a cron job equivalent to the man one : http://repos.archlinux.org/viewvc.cgi/man/repos/core-i686/whatis.cron.daily?revision=1&view=markup Btw, I wonder if updating the info database shouldn't be done the same way, a simple cron job instead of a crappy scriptlet for every single package.
