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Hi folks,
It would be very nice if mandb could ignore remote disks. There would
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Several mandb running on different hosts at the same time
wouldn't interfere with each other.
Mandb would terminate within one day in my environment.
Regards
Harri
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Hi folks,
It would be very nice if mandb could ignore remote disks. There would
be at least 2 advantages:
Several mandb running on different hosts at the same time
wouldn't interfere with each other.
Mandb would terminate within one day in my environment.
Regards
Harri
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Harald Dunkel , 90522@bugs.debian.org wrote:
>It would be very nice if mandb could ignore remote disks. There would
>be at least 2 advantages:
>
> Several mandb running on different hosts at the same time
> wouldn't interfere with each other.
Isn't this a configuration issue? While /etc/manpath.config isn't a
dpkg-handled conffile, it won't be gratuitously overwritten, so you can
remove MANDB_MAP entries for remotely mounted partitions. You'll find a
description of that file in manpath(5).
I don't think it's really mandb's job to work out which disks are local
and which aren't; some of the hierarchies it typically manages are very
often mounted on different local partitions, and it seems like a bad
idea to put knowledge of mount types into mandb.
> Mandb would terminate within one day in my environment.
I can see that that would be useful. :)
Regards,
--
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Harald Dunkel , 90522@bugs.debian.org wrote:
>It would be very nice if mandb could ignore remote disks. There would
>be at least 2 advantages:
>
> Several mandb running on different hosts at the same time
> wouldn't interfere with each other.
Isn't this a configuration issue? While /etc/manpath.config isn't a
dpkg-handled conffile, it won't be gratuitously overwritten, so you can
remove MANDB_MAP entries for remotely mounted partitions. You'll find a
description of that file in manpath(5).
I don't think it's really mandb's job to work out which disks are local
and which aren't; some of the hierarchies it typically manages are very
often mounted on different local partitions, and it seems like a bad
idea to put knowledge of mount types into mandb.
> Mandb would terminate within one day in my environment.
I can see that that would be useful. :)
Regards,
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Harald Dunkel , 90522@bugs.debian.org wrote:
>It would be very nice if mandb could ignore remote disks. There would
>be at least 2 advantages:
>
> Several mandb running on different hosts at the same time
> wouldn't interfere with each other.
Isn't this a configuration issue? While /etc/manpath.config isn't a
dpkg-handled conffile, it won't be gratuitously overwritten, so you can
remove MANDB_MAP entries for remotely mounted partitions. You'll find a
description of that file in manpath(5).
I don't think it's really mandb's job to work out which disks are local
and which aren't; some of the hierarchies it typically manages are very
often mounted on different local partitions, and it seems like a bad
idea to put knowledge of mount types into mandb.
> Mandb would terminate within one day in my environment.
I can see that that would be useful. :)
Regards,
--
Colin Watson [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]
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Colin Watson wrote:
>
> severity 90522 wishlist
> thanks
>
> Harald Dunkel , 90522@bugs.debian.org wrote:
> >It would be very nice if mandb could ignore remote disks. There would
> >be at least 2 advantages:
> >
> > Several mandb running on different hosts at the same time
> > wouldn't interfere with each other.
>
> Isn't this a configuration issue? While /etc/manpath.config isn't a
> dpkg-handled conffile, it won't be gratuitously overwritten, so you can
> remove MANDB_MAP entries for remotely mounted partitions. You'll find a
> description of that file in manpath(5).
>
I have already excluded /usr/local/man in mandb.conf of my Debian
hosts, but each time I have configured a new machine, I have forgotten
this manual step again.
I guess it is more efficient and reasonable to make mandb ignore
NFS disks per default. The NFS server machine will be much faster on
creating the man page index. (Of course there is the special case
that the NFS server is too stupid to create an index, cause it
is a network device, for example.)
> I don't think it's really mandb's job to work out which disks are local
> and which aren't; some of the hierarchies it typically manages are very
> often mounted on different local partitions, and it seems like a bad
> idea to put knowledge of mount types into mandb.
>
mandb could verify whether a disk is local using 'find', as it is
done by updatedb. Updatedb has a list of allowed file systems
in /etc/updatedb.conf .
Regards
Harri
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Colin Watson wrote:
>
> severity 90522 wishlist
> thanks
>
> Harald Dunkel , 90522@bugs.debian.org wrote:
> >It would be very nice if mandb could ignore remote disks. There would
> >be at least 2 advantages:
> >
> > Several mandb running on different hosts at the same time
> > wouldn't interfere with each other.
>
> Isn't this a configuration issue? While /etc/manpath.config isn't a
> dpkg-handled conffile, it won't be gratuitously overwritten, so you can
> remove MANDB_MAP entries for remotely mounted partitions. You'll find a
> description of that file in manpath(5).
>
I have already excluded /usr/local/man in mandb.conf of my Debian
hosts, but each time I have configured a new machine, I have forgotten
this manual step again.
I guess it is more efficient and reasonable to make mandb ignore
NFS disks per default. The NFS server machine will be much faster on
creating the man page index. (Of course there is the special case
that the NFS server is too stupid to create an index, cause it
is a network device, for example.)
> I don't think it's really mandb's job to work out which disks are local
> and which aren't; some of the hierarchies it typically manages are very
> often mounted on different local partitions, and it seems like a bad
> idea to put knowledge of mount types into mandb.
>
mandb could verify whether a disk is local using 'find', as it is
done by updatedb. Updatedb has a list of allowed file systems
in /etc/updatedb.conf .
Regards
Harri
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retitle 23522 man-db: installs foreign language man pages
retitle 29448 man-db: No databases for non-English man hierarchies
retitle 32019 man-db: Move undocumented(7) from manpages to man-db
retitle 37686 man-db: "apropos xx" inconsistent with "apropos -w 'xx*'"
retitle 39701 doc-linux: /usr/share/doc details are sketchy
retitle 53520 doc-linux: non-English HOWTOs in /usr/share/doc/en-{txt,html}
retitle 60564 doc-linux: Missing High-Availability HOWTO
retitle 60728 doc-linux: add pointer to where the files are
retitle 67090 doc-linux-html: colors not set completely
retitle 67545 groff: HTML driver doesn't handle overstriking well
retitle 69129 groff-base: -mm and -ms enable warnings, overriding -W switch
retitle 71758 doc-linux-html: Missing pieces to the Remote-Boot mini-HOWTO
retitle 75447 doc-linux: SMB-HOWTO has the word "stoped" rather than "stopped"
retitle 77543 libcgicg1-dev: cgic.h not const-correct
retitle 86948 man-db: [powerpc] Database updates don't happen in time
retitle 89102 doc-linux: Please add GNU Free Documentation License
retitle 90522 man-db: should ignore remote disks
retitle 92891 trn4: has 1024-char limit on TRNINIT
retitle 95667 doc-linux: Some HOWTOs refer to obsolete package wg15-locale
retitle 98660 denemo: Should specify lilypond version in .ly and call convert-ly
retitle 107725 man-db: Spurious "can't create index cache" message
retitle 108410 man-db: case-insensitive searching of man pages
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On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 02:20:04PM +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
> > Isn't this a configuration issue? While /etc/manpath.config isn't a
> > dpkg-handled conffile, it won't be gratuitously overwritten, so you can
> > remove MANDB_MAP entries for remotely mounted partitions. You'll find a
> > description of that file in manpath(5).
>
> I have already excluded /usr/local/man in mandb.conf of my Debian
> hosts, but each time I have configured a new machine, I have forgotten
> this manual step again.
>
> I guess it is more efficient and reasonable to make mandb ignore
> NFS disks per default. The NFS server machine will be much faster on
> creating the man page index.
It will be faster, that's true.
> > I don't think it's really mandb's job to work out which disks are local
> > and which aren't; some of the hierarchies it typically manages are very
> > often mounted on different local partitions, and it seems like a bad
> > idea to put knowledge of mount types into mandb.
>
> mandb could verify whether a disk is local using 'find', as it is
> done by updatedb. Updatedb has a list of allowed file systems
> in /etc/updatedb.conf .
Unfortunately the -fstype option to find is not portable (I've just
checked the Single Unix Specification), and man-db works on more systems
than just Debian. updatedb is compiled from the same source as GNU find,
so doesn't have this problem. I also don't want to duplicate lots of
code from GNU find, as I don't track their development and don't want to
have to fix their bugs in parallel.
If you can come up with a portable solution, let me know; I'm not really
enthusiastic about maintaining a Debian-specific solution.
For installing lots of machines, I recommend you try out something like
fai, so that you can duplicate configuration across multiple machines
relatively easily.
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tags 90522 wontfix
thanks
Unless somebody can come up with a way to do this portably, I don't
intend to put any knowledge of filesystem types into mandb.
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tags 90522 wontfix
thanks
Unless somebody can come up with a way to do this portably, I don't
intend to put any knowledge of filesystem types into mandb.
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