From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 14 22:43:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hawk.prod.itd.earthlink.net (hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A829D37B417 for ; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 22:43:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from sdn-ar-004dcwashp040.dialsprint.net ([206.133.21.152] helo=moo.holy.cow) by hawk.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16F8Y6-00054j-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 22:43:55 -0800 Received: by moo.holy.cow (Postfix, from userid 1001) id D4B9550CEE; Sat, 15 Dec 2001 01:45:48 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 01:45:48 -0500 From: parv To: f-q Subject: makewhatis doesn't remove entries for nonexistent manpages by default Message-ID: <20011215014548.A26046@moo.holy.cow> Mail-Followup-To: f-q Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG makewhatis doesn't remove entries for nonexistent manpages by default. i issued this command... # cd /usr/local/man # makewhatis /usr/local/man ...in its manpage, there is no mention of the default behaviour. -v option would only "issue more warnings"; -a option would append to the database w/o checking if old entries are valid. and that's what puzzles me. i didn't specify the -a option, yet just that was happening. i had to delete the existing whatis database so that changes in /usr/local/man would reflect. are manpage and the command out of sync? is it fixed in recent updates? my freebsd version is 4.4-stable as of 2001.10.03.02.12.13. - parv -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message