On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 02:53:24PM +0200, Michael Prokop wrote: > This step: > > echo "Building database of manual pages ..." >&2 > run_mandb -cq > > in postinst can take quite some time. Especially when building > Debian packages in an automated fashion this can be quite a waste of > build time and resources AFAICT. > > It would be nice if there'd be a simple way to skip this step > (simple as in "no need to dpkg-divert any files from man-db when > being executed inside pbuilder/cowbuilder/... environment" :))
There's already a preseedable debconf template for this very purpose. Set man-db/auto-update to false and mandb won't be run. Does that meet your needs? -- Colin Watson [[email protected]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
