NetBSD Problem Report #48440
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Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 07:51:38 +0400
From: Aleksej Saushev <asau@inbox.ru>
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Subject: apropos(1) doesn't work on NetBSD 6.99.28
>Number: 48440
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: apropos(1) doesn't work on NetBSD 6.99.28
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: bin-bug-people
>State: closed
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Wed Dec 11 03:55:00 +0000 2013
>Closed-Date: Thu Jun 15 16:37:50 +0000 2017
>Last-Modified: Thu Jun 15 16:37:50 +0000 2017
>Originator: asau@inbox.ru
>Release: NetBSD 6.99.28
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: NetBSD lithium 6.99.28 NetBSD 6.99.28 (GENERIC) #0: Thu Nov 28 11:25:55 MSK 2013 asau@lithium:/usr/obj/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
After updating to 6.99 apropos(1) stops working:
$ apropos test
apropos: _mandb entry not found in man.conf
_mandb isn't mentioned in man.conf
Attempt to rebuild database fails:
$ su root -c "makemandb -f"
makemandb: _mandb entry not found in man.conf
>How-To-Repeat:
$ apropos test
apropos: _mandb entry not found in man.conf
>Fix:
Provide and document upgrade path.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
From: David Holland <dholland-bugs@netbsd.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc:
Subject: Re: bin/48440: apropos(1) doesn't work on NetBSD 6.99.28
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 05:51:26 +0000
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 03:55:00AM +0000, Aleksej Saushev wrote:
> After updating to 6.99 apropos(1) stops working:
>
> $ apropos test
> apropos: _mandb entry not found in man.conf
>
> _mandb isn't mentioned in man.conf
>
> Attempt to rebuild database fails:
> $ su root -c "makemandb -f"
> makemandb: _mandb entry not found in man.conf
> >How-To-Repeat:
> $ apropos test
> apropos: _mandb entry not found in man.conf
> >Fix:
> Provide and document upgrade path.
You need to merge man.conf from /usr/src/etc.man.conf; it would be
nice to have postinstall do the critical parts of this.
--
David A. Holland
dholland@netbsd.org
From: Aleksej Saushev <asau@inbox.ru>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: gnats-admin@netbsd.org, netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/48440: apropos(1) doesn't work on NetBSD 6.99.28
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 10:41:23 +0400
David Holland <dholland-bugs@netbsd.org> writes:
> You need to merge man.conf from /usr/src/etc.man.conf; it would be
> nice to have postinstall do the critical parts of this.
UPDATING should mention this at the very least.
From: Alan Barrett <apb@cequrux.com>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc:
Subject: Re: bin/48440: apropos(1) doesn't work on NetBSD 6.99.28
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 15:28:25 +0200
On Wed, 11 Dec 2013, Aleksej Saushev wrote:
>David Holland <dholland-bugs@netbsd.org> writes:
>
>> You need to merge man.conf from /usr/src/etc.man.conf; it would be
>> nice to have postinstall do the critical parts of this.
>
>UPDATING should mention this at the very least.
Also, the man.conf(5) man page shoudl document the _mandb setting.
--apb (Alan Barrett)
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
State-Changed-By: abhinav@NetBSD.org
State-Changed-When: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 16:37:50 +0000
State-Changed-Why:
man.conf(5) now contains information about _mandb required by apropos(1).
Sorry for the trouble caused and thanks for reporting the issue.
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