On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 04:02:46AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 07:54:46PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 03:34:37AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > > 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...) > > There might be another way. At the time that bug was filed, I thought > that DEBIAN_FRONTEND=Noninteractive just meant that the noninteractive > frontend was in use, so I discarded the option of running mandb in the > foreground if that was set. I now realize that debconf doesn't set that > itself, but just pays attention to it when debootstrap does it. This > makes running mandb in the foreground a lot more acceptable. > > I'll change that and see how it goes; easier than changing base-config. > :)
It only took about a minute on my machine, for a basic install db. I have a 350, so that's probably slow by today's standards. -- *------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]
