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On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 02:50:02AM +0200, Renat Golubchyk wrote: |
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> I was wondering, should portage update the whatis database after |
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> emerging a package? Because I only see a message that says the info |
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> pages database is being updated. Also "apropos" does not ever show |
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> anything except if I run "makewhatis" or "makewhatis -u" as root after |
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> running emerge. |
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Look in /etc/cron.daily/makewhatis.cron :-) |
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Uncomment the call there, and that will update it daily. |
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> So, the question is, does portage update the whatis database |
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> everywhere but on my machine or is this functionality/feature not even |
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> in portage. Because if emerge isn't supposed to do that (doesn't do it |
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> yet) I shall definitely file a bug report with a feature request. |
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I don't know about this one. |
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