* Roland Mainz <roland.mainz at nrubsig.org> [2007-06-18 17:23]: > "Dennis A. Evans" wrote: > > > Well, I hate that packages that install man pages > > > don't bother to run catman -w -M $dir > > > on the directory (and again when they're removed). > > > > This was always viewed as a performance problem. Maybe > > it should be revisited but the objection was that if > > each man page package ran catman -w the full install > > of Solaris could be seriously delayed. > > 9xx. Create a script which can be called by package postinstall scripts > which builds the matching "windex"/etc. files automatically (note that > this is not part of the "postinstall" script itself to make sure that > modification to the index generation scripts are decoupled from the > "postinstall" script)
We're already working on something that achieves the equivalent in the sfwnv project, for manual pages, the infodoc directory file, and (I suppose) the locate DB, if someone were to integrate findutils. See http://blogs.sun.com/sch/entry/bespoke_services_application_catman for a naive first approach. - Stephen -- sch at sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/sch/
