[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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