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Re: Updated Cygwin yesterday, makewhatis is not present on my system
- From: "Chris J. Breisch" <chris dot ml at breisch dot org>
- To: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2014 10:09:16 -0400
- Subject: Re: Updated Cygwin yesterday, makewhatis is not present on my system
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Hello Andrey,
Wednesday, July 2, 2014, 8:37:11 AM, you wrote:
> Greetings, Chris J. Breisch!
>>> Ok, I think I have figured it out. Will the now unnecessary files
>>> created by "makewhatis" be purged or overwritten by mandb?
>> Oh, that's a good question about the unnecessary files. I should add
>> that cleanup to the install scripts, since it obsoletes man.
> Actually, I think it should be added to man obsoleting package, rather than to
> an install script of some unrelated package. Even if that package is, in fact,
> supercede the first one.
Yes, I thought about that. The problem is that it won't help upgraders
to new versions of mandb. Since the obsoleted package will have
already been removed. I'll have to give this some thought.
--
Chris J. Breisch
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