Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2025 20:03:41 +0100 From: Graham Perrin <grahamperrin@gmail.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-pkgbase@freebsd.org Subject: Re: man -k and man -f not working with pkgbase 15-stable installation Message-ID: <0a7ed070-525c-4882-883c-b2879e27b968@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <ZMo1-6b921XJ-Hq1Z2fpy_wKP0PwR3_hv80BOWsky2cLZ3ZwZMUGPoZ6sTsfDjYy5a7w2XCCFG__FqmCTL5iJgKSGZ6bA6Z5-ojw66cKV10=@proton.me> References: <ZMo1-6b921XJ-Hq1Z2fpy_wKP0PwR3_hv80BOWsky2cLZ3ZwZMUGPoZ6sTsfDjYy5a7w2XCCFG__FqmCTL5iJgKSGZ6bA6Z5-ojw66cKV10=@proton.me>
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On 12/09/2025 19:04, polyduekes@proton.me wrote: > recently decided to give a try to 15-stable so i grabbed the alpha 1 disc1 iso and decided to go the pkgbase way, the installation went fine and smooth, finished the installation, rebooted into the freshly installed system, tried doing man -k dtrace, got "apropos: nothing appropriate" weird, tried doing man -f dtrace, again got "whatis: nothing appropriate", tried the same with other manpages like "sh" and the other result was the same, at this point i startes the installer again and reinstalled 15-alpha1 but with "traditional installation" this time and man -k and man -f started working properly in that traditional installation system > With 15.0-PRERELEASE installed by the ALPHA1 installer, I find the same issue. Worked around: makewhatishelp
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