On Sun, 24 May 2009 16:14 +0200, "Tomas Pospisek" <tpo_...@sourcepole.ch> wrote: > >> Could this later point be made clear in the README? > > > > i really don't know how it could be said any clearer. > > I suggest actually putting that information somewhere into the package as > for example into the README.Debian. > > >> And could the README be included in the dlocate package please? I'm > >> thinking it could spare the world a few dozen kilo joule of electricity > >> over all? > > > > what README? There is a README.Debian in the dlocate package.
I'm guessing maybe Craig is missing the fact that this is a follow-up to a bug report of mine which suggests to add a README about this issue <http://bugs.debian.org/494673> I have absolutely no objection to folding this information into README.Debian if you prefer; I was thinking a specific README with a name alluding to mlocate and slocate would be easier to find (harder to ignore :-) than the generic README.Debian but that's Craig's call, obviously. > dlocate will install locate by dependency and locate will by default > start > automatically trashing the disk each day. Thus in my opinion dlocate > should warn the user of this. I'd suggest putting a line into dlocate's > manpage referring to the README.Debian and explain things there. > Additionally I'd suggest to test in the dlocate.postinst whether either > two of locate and mlocate or slocate are installed and tell the user that > he probably wants to disable the locate updatedb run through the > /etc/updatedb.findutils.cron.local mechanism. In my opinion this is slightly problematic -- dlocate's install script cannot know whether locate was installed explicitly by the user (well, I suppose this information is available if you use aptitude, but not on a plain apt-get/dpkg base system) or pulled in as a dependency. The proper solution I guess would be for locate to be split into a "locate-common" package containing the tools, keeping only the configuration data in "locate" proper, but that sounds like severe overkill. Many people do complain about unwanted locate runs so perhaps there should be a bug about this against locate (sorry, too much in the middle of something else to check right away whether there is one already). /* era */ -- If this were a real .signature, it would suck less. Well, maybe not. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
