tags 472919 fixed-upstream
thanks
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 08:56:44AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> Package: man-db
> Version: 2.5.1-3
> Severity: normal
>
> Hi,
>
> man-db's cron job creates an empty directory structure under
> /var/cache/man/X11R6/. As far as I know, the X11R6 subtree is not used
> any more in recent versions of Debian, and thus the cron job should
> refrain from creating it.
>
> Maybe the cron job can be adapted to only create directories that are
> actually used?
Thanks for your report, and sorry it took me a while to address it. I've
fixed this upstream, so man-db 2.5.6 will no longer create
/var/cache/man/X11R6/ unless /usr/X11R6/man/ has some content.
Sun Jun 28 17:56:49 BST 2009 Colin Watson <cjwat...@debian.org>
Don't create unnecessary database directories (Debian bug #472919).
* src/check_mandirs.c (testmandirs): Add catpath and create
arguments. Create the database when it first seems to be needed.
Use mkcatdirs rather than make_database_directory.
(make_database_directory): Remove.
(create_db): Add catpath argument. Don't create the database here;
let testmandirs do it when needed instead.
(update_db): Add catpath argument. Don't create the database
directory; either it exists already in which case there's nothing
to do, or it's missing in which case there'll be no database to
update anyway.
* src/check_mandirs.h (create_db, update_db): Update prototypes.
* src/mandb.c (update_db_wrapper): Add catpath argument.
(mandb): Update calls to functions that now take the catpath too.
* src/manp.c (add_mandb_map): Don't create the cat hierarchy here;
testmandirs will do it on demand.
(mkcatdirs): Make external for use by check_mandirs.c.
* src/manp.h (mkcatdirs): Add prototype.
* docs/NEWS: Document this.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]
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