On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 03:34:37AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 03:25:52AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 07:11:39PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > > It still might be worth a bug; the postinst only builds the database > > > on fresh installs if man-db is not installed setuid. I don't > > > understand that; seems like it needs a database. > > > > I'll change that, I suppose. > > I've just remembered why things are done that way in the first place. > See #100616, which caused problems for the boot-floppies. I'll see if I > can come up with some alternative hack which checks whether the > noninteractive frontend is in use. > > However, this won't help you. On fresh installs using debootstrap, mandb > won't be run either way, and nothing later on will run it. Perhaps > building the database properly is a job for base-config?
Hmmm. I always wondered, why couldn't cron be set up to run its daily job if x days went by without running it, regardless of the time it was set to run? Or maybe it can. That would take care of this, although not for a few days on a new install. I guess that's what anacron is supposed to do. I just got tired of anacron hashing my disk to death every time I started up. (I actually had a disk fail, too...) -- *------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------* | <http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/installmanual> | | debian-imac (potato): <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | May the Source be with you | *----------------------------------------------------------------* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
