Package: htdig Version: 1:3.2.0b6-3.1 Severity: normal Tags: patch while rundig in sarge would specifically test for the -i command line option and add it to its invocation of htdig (but not htpurge) accordingly, this test has gone away in etch, and now rundig always adds -i to the htdig invocation.
This is quite wasteful, as -i ("initial") causes htdig to throw away the existing database and and rebuild it from scratch, which is normally not necessary unless content has been deleted. We index 25G of Mailman archives, and what used to be a swift 20min nightly update run turned into a 40h+ rebuild nightmare with several nightly updates running into each other hogging all resources on the list server. Hence I'd like to ask for this mandatory option to be removed, cf the following patch: --- /usr/bin/rundig.unpatched 2007-07-30 12:22:45.509144360 +0200 +++ /usr/bin/rundig 2007-07-30 12:23:35.983896379 +0200 @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ TMPDIR=$DBDIR export TMPDIR -$BINDIR/htdig -i $opts $stats $alt +$BINDIR/htdig $opts $stats $alt $BINDIR/htpurge $opts $alt case "$alt" in -a) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]