Re: Things to bear in mind when changing updatedb...

2007-04-15 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2007-04-15 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 01:35:54PM +0100, James Youngman wrote: > > It's not that I am asking you to fix the bugs, it's that I hope we can > > make the problems irrelevant by improving updatedb's design. > > > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?

Re: Things to bear in mind when changing updatedb...

2007-04-15 Thread James Youngman
On 4/15/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 01:35:54PM +0100, James Youngman wrote: > It's not that I am asking you to fix the bugs, it's that I hope we can > make the problems irrelevant by improving updatedb's design. > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugr

Re: Things to bear in mind when changing updatedb...

2007-04-15 Thread leslie . polzer
On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 01:35:54PM +0100, James Youngman wrote: > It's not that I am asking you to fix the bugs, it's that I hope we can > make the problems irrelevant by improving updatedb's design. > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=245874 This one seems to be a Debian issue.

Things to bear in mind when changing updatedb...

2007-04-15 Thread James Youngman
Leslie, There are some relevant bug reports which relate to design features of updatedb and to features that updatedb has just because it's a shell script. It's worth bearing in mind if the changes you plan will address those problems also. It's not that I am asking you to fix the bugs, it's t