[arch-general] What update left mandb scrambled?

[Eli Schwartz]

On 2/26/19 1:13 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
> On 02/26/2019 06:33 AM, Edvinas Valatka via arch-general wrote:
>> After https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/man-db&id=a296a036a34944f714488f43bf576cca58bda604
>> , you have to manualy enable man-db.timer
> 
> +#  probably not required
> +#  install -d -m755 ${pkgdir}/usr/lib/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants
> +#  ln -s ../man-db.timer
> ${pkgdir}//usr/lib/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/man-db.timer
> 
> That would then seem to be an update that requires user-intervention and have
> some note listed on https://www.archlinux.org/.
> 
> The most recent note under "Latest News" is getting quite stale.
> 
> I scan the pacman Upgrade output and don't recall seeing a note there either.
> 
> I don't see the logic in not enabling the timer by default. If the man pages
> are installed, they need to be usable without further user intervention. It
> would make more sense to have the people that DON'T want to use the man pages
> disable the timer rather than force everybody who wants working man pages to
> enable it. Otherwise RTFM means little if they are broken.

It is not a news item and it is not a "you have to manually enable basic
system functionality", it is a bug report.

Although I have been using Graysky's mandb-ondemand timer for long
enough that I guess I did not notice this myself.

Actually ISTR an IRC conversation with another packager, who discovered
the same thing and who said he would get in touch with the the mandb
maintainer about this.

-- 
Eli Schwartz
Bug Wrangler and Trusted User

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