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Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2004 19:28:14 +0200
From: Reini Urban <rurban AT x-ray DOT at>
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Subject: PostInstallLast addons?
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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/

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