On Friday 25 December 2009, Frans Pop wrote:
> I'm seeing the same issue in an amd64/sid pbuilder environment when
> mandb gets installed as one of the build dependencies of
> cdebconf-entropy.

To show the severity of the issue, this is from my sparc box during a 
regular upgrade (last one was 2 months ago):
 9630 man       20   0  5448 1960  680 R 98.8  0.2  54:11.05 mandb

And no idea how much longer it's going to take.

One problem is that there is absolutely no indication man-db is doing 
anything special. It just shows:
   Processing triggers for man-db ...

Users are very likely to conclude something is in an endless loop.

And even if it did show some king of progress, processes that take so much 
time IMO shouldn't be done from maintainer scripts. An upgrade should be 
completed within a reasonable time to avoid the risk of leaving random 
services of unrelated packages stopped for so long.



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