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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: misc/18255: whatis(1) doesn't know about /usr/local
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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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