[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: man-db-2.11.2-1

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: man-db-2.11.2-1

[Achim Gratz]

The man-db package is updated to the latest upstream version 2.11.2.

Man-db is an implementation of the standard Unix documentation system
accessed using the man command. It uses a Berkeley DB database in place
of the traditional flat-text whatis databases.


Cygwin Notes
============

The man-db package includes a conditional perpetual postinstall script
that keeps the database updated each time setup is run if (and only if)
the database exists.  This update now runs in the background by default,
so setup is no longer waiting for the update to complete.  This can be
changed if needed, see below.  The diagnostic output from the update is
stored at /var/log/mandb-index.log, so you can check if there were
problems on the last update.  This release works around a Windows bug
that causes creation of a spurious directory %SystemDrive% in the Cygwin
installation root.

In order to create the database directly via setup, please install the
man-db-create-index package.  The removal of this package will not
remove an existing database, this still needs to be done manually if
required.

If your installation procedure requires that setup waits for the index
update to complete, install the man-db-index-synchronously package
instead.  The creation of a new database can take several minutes to
over an hour depending on how many manual pages are installed and how
fast your filesystem is.  Removal of this package will leave an existing
database in place, but switches the system back to do background
updates.

If you install "everything" that means both the above mentioned helper
packages get installed and the first installation will take a long time
as setup will wait for the newly created index to be complete.

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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: man-db-2.11.2-1

[Henry S. Thompson]

Achim Gratz via Cygwin writes:

> The man-db package is updated to the latest upstream version 2.11.2.

Thanks for this.  

> ...

> The diagnostic output from the update is stored at
> /var/log/mandb-index.log, so you can check if there were problems on
> the last update.

A quick scan of this reveals 86 warnings:

  54 whatis parse for ... failed
  29 bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request
   3 is a dangling symlink

Are any of these of any interest to ordinary users, as opposed to
package maintainers?

ht
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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: man-db-2.11.2-1

[Achim Gratz]

Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin writes:
> A quick scan of this reveals 86 warnings:
>
>   54 whatis parse for ... failed
>   29 bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request
>    3 is a dangling symlink
>
> Are any of these of any interest to ordinary users, as opposed to
> package maintainers?

THese are warning, not errors.  There are tons of errors and
questionable ROFF constructs in the sources of various man pages, for
better or worse.


Regards,
Achim.
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