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/usr/share/dhelp/index-deferred is in dhelp 0.6.20ubuntu1.

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#!/bin/sh
# Perform deffered indexing of documents registered during the last dpkg-run.
# This script is meant to be called as a dpkg post-invoke trigger.
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
# License along with this program; if not, write to the Free
# Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
# MA  02111-1307  USA.

TODAY=`date '+%F'`
LOGDIR=/var/lib/dhelp/tmp

if [ "X${1}" = "X-f" ] || [ "X${1}" = "X--full" ]; then
    INDEX_CMD='/etc/cron.weekly/dhelp'
else
    INDEX_CMD='/usr/sbin/dhelp_parse -i'
fi
BINCMD=`echo "${INDEX_CMD}" | awk '{print $1}'`

if [ ! -x ${BINCMD} ]; then
    echo "Error: ${BINCMD} is missing or is not executable"
    exit 1
fi

DHLOG=`mktemp --tmpdir=${LOGDIR} ${TODAY}.index-log.XXXXXXXX`

if [ ! -f ${DHLOG} ]; then
    echo "Error: unable to create temporary log file in ${LOGDIR}"
    exit 2
fi

# Indexing may last a large amount of time, which may be (depending
# on how dpkg was called) larger than the timespan of the controlling
# process/terminal. Use nohup to account for this possibility.

</dev/null >${DHLOG} 2>${DHLOG} nohup nice -n10 ${INDEX_CMD} &