[SM-Discuss] man-db (Was: Anyone interested in a mlocate spell?)

Kevin Monceaux Kevin at RawFedDogs.net
Thu Oct 23 16:09:03 EDT 2008


On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, Kevin Monceaux wrote:

> I know the whatis updates on Debian were very fast.  It's package system 
> automatically fired off a trigger whenever a package installed or 
> updated man pages that performed a whatis update.  The updates too a few 
> seconds at most to run.

It looks like a full makewhatis run versus a mandb run isn't that much of 
a savings.  A full makewhatis run on my box just took all of 23 seconds. 
But, I only have 351 packages on my box.  Someone with a fully loaded 
Source Mage box might see a larger savings.



Kevin
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