Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2025 20:28:15 +0100 From: Graham Perrin <grahamperrin@gmail.com> To: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Cc: "freebsd-pkgbase@freebsd.org" <freebsd-pkgbase@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: man -k and man -f not working with pkgbase 15-stable installation Message-ID: <b38e07da-7018-4de5-8218-9c2e52cbe430@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <Zrh_9I4tp_flI4UjIqQYL3CuxM0l_1hYnmCnMQ-fDuQK3rDIoyXKN__CmGTBHQCaZdFqRsTyjDg2Iy0EOjQqEVkJ5s7fvciiHAwftQuzmW0=@proton.me> References: <ZMo1-6b921XJ-Hq1Z2fpy_wKP0PwR3_hv80BOWsky2cLZ3ZwZMUGPoZ6sTsfDjYy5a7w2XCCFG__FqmCTL5iJgKSGZ6bA6Z5-ojw66cKV10=@proton.me> <0a7ed070-525c-4882-883c-b2879e27b968@gmail.com> <Zrh_9I4tp_flI4UjIqQYL3CuxM0l_1hYnmCnMQ-fDuQK3rDIoyXKN__CmGTBHQCaZdFqRsTyjDg2Iy0EOjQqEVkJ5s7fvciiHAwftQuzmW0=@proton.me>
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On 12/09/2025 20:06, polyduekes@proton.me wrote: > thanks, is this problem reported somewhere? i don't think it's ideal to permanently rely on this workaround I'm not aware of a report, if you'd like to add it to Bugzilla. I see this in freebsd.update.sh: <https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/66d8ffe3046ded1eb3f78599c6af8eb965482ef5/usr.sbin/freebsd-update/freebsd-update.sh#L3151-L3161>; – but I don't know how things are done with FreeBSD Installer, when legacy files are used instead of packages. > -------- Original Message -------- > On 13/09/25 12:34 am, Graham Perrin <grahamperrin@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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: >> >> makewhatis >> >>help
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