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  • From: Kevin Monceaux <Kevin AT RawFedDogs.net>
  • To: Source Mage Discuss Mailing List <SM-Discuss AT Lists.IBiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] man-db (Was: Anyone interested in a mlocate spell?)
  • Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:09:03 -0500 (CDT)


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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