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Re: [SM-Grimoire] info database registration and deletion a sorcery enhancement ?
- From: Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>
- To: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>, sm-grimoire AT lists.ibiblio.org
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- Subject: Re: [SM-Grimoire] info database registration and deletion a sorcery enhancement ?
- Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 20:16:55 -0800
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 08:13:23PM -0800, Seth Alan Woolley wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 08:05:41PM -0800, Eric Sandall wrote:
> > Quoting Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>:
> > > Must be just a coincidence I was thinking of how to handle
> > > /usr/share/man/whatis database at the same time.
> > >
> > > install-info and makewhatis should both be run -- makewhatis if there's
> > > anything installed into a /man/ directory.
> > >
> > > We should move the /usr/share/man/whatis file somewhere else
> > > (/var/whatis/)
> > > though .. I'm working on that part.
> > >
> > > Alley_cat and I are working on how to handle .dir and .scale caches for
> > > fonts.
> > >
> > > I'll have no more obnoxiously located aliens laying around then.
> > >
> > > Seth
> >
> > On my last "man" update, I added a call to `makewhatis` in POST_INSTALL,
> > as
> > `apropos` never worked.
> >
> > -sandalle
>
> That's broken though... I'll leave it in there until we make the info
> thing at the same time. Sorcery should handle it when man pages are
> installed.
>
> I modified man to symlink the whatis db over to /var/whatis if it isn't
> a symlink already.
/var/cache/whatis would be better I just realized -- where the locatedb is.
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[SM-Grimoire] info database registration and deletion a sorcery enhancement ?,
Hamish Greig, 01/08/2004
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Re: [SM-Grimoire] info database registration and deletion a sorcery enhancement ?,
Eric Sandall, 01/08/2004
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Re: [SM-Grimoire] info database registration and deletion a sorcery enhancement ?,
Seth Alan Woolley, 01/08/2004
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Re: [SM-Grimoire] info database registration and deletion a sorcery enhancement ?,
Eric Sandall, 01/08/2004
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Re: [SM-Grimoire] info database registration and deletion a sorcery enhancement ?,
Seth Alan Woolley, 01/08/2004
- Re: [SM-Grimoire] info database registration and deletion a sorcery enhancement ?, Seth Alan Woolley, 01/08/2004
- Re: [SM-Grimoire] info database registration and deletion a sorcery enhancement ?, Eric Sandall, 01/09/2004
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Re: [SM-Grimoire] info database registration and deletion a sorcery enhancement ?,
Seth Alan Woolley, 01/08/2004
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Re: [SM-Grimoire] info database registration and deletion a sorcery enhancement ?,
Eric Sandall, 01/08/2004
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Re: [SM-Grimoire] info database registration and deletion a sorcery enhancement ?,
Seth Alan Woolley, 01/08/2004
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Re: [SM-Grimoire] info database registration and deletion a sorcery enhancement ?,
Eric Sandall, 01/08/2004
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