Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <41681FAE.7050508@x-ray.at> Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2004 19:28:14 +0200 From: Reini Urban User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-AT; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040817 MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: PostInstallLast addons? References: <4162386A.1080009@pastornet.net.au> <20041005084757.GK6702@cygbert.vinschen.de> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Robert R Schneck schrieb: > lex ein wrote: >>6. If a user has by some miracle heard of 'locate', a search using 'locate >>openssh' produces no results unless the user first runs 'updatedb'. > > Would it be appropriate for the PostInstallLast part of setup which > "updates info dir" to also run makewhatis? And perhaps even updatedb? Very unlikely. These are quite massive processes in contrary to _update-info-dir Maybe detached in the background. Or if someone writes an updatewhatis which gets the filelist of the new man files. Same for updatedb which should accept a new argument for the package MANIFEST to be merged into. How about other distros? -- Reini Urban http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/