Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2002 15:30:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: misc/18255: whatis(1) doesn't know about /usr/local Message-ID: <200206082230.g58MU3672961@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR misc/18255; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.org>
To: lowell@world.std.com
Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: misc/18255: whatis(1) doesn't know about /usr/local
Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2002 01:20:30 +0300
On 2000-04-27 09:31 -0400, lowell@world.std.com wrote:
> The period script that runs makewhatis doesn't have /usr/local in
> its path, so manpath(1) doesn't include /usr/local/man, so ports and
> packages don't get included in the database. The most obvious fix
> is to put /usr/local into the /etc/crontab PATH setting, but that's
> a bad idea (because root crontab runs *shouldn't* be running
> anything from /usr/local in a default system anyway). Hammering it
> into the periodic script that calls makewhatis seems like a better
> way.
I think care should be taken to make sure that the correct value of
LOCALBASE is used. The default value is /usr/local as shown in
/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk:
01:18 [charon@hades /usr/ports/Mk]$ grep -n '^LOCALBASE' bsd.port.mk
685:LOCALBASE?= ${DESTDIR}/usr/local
Since this can be customized in /etc/make.conf, the following part of
the patch might not always be correct:
+ PATH=${PATH}:/usr/local/bin
- Giorgos
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