From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Dec 18 22:40: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16EA737B405 for ; Tue, 18 Dec 2001 22:40:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fBJ6e3A67584; Tue, 18 Dec 2001 22:40:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 22:40:03 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200112190640.fBJ6e3A67584@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: parv Subject: Re: gnu/32954: makewhatis doesn't remove entries for nonexistent manpages by default Reply-To: parv Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR gnu/32954; it has been noted by GNATS. From: parv To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gnu/32954: makewhatis doesn't remove entries for nonexistent manpages by default Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 01:33:59 -0500 in message <20011218133420.B507@gohan.cjclark.org>, wrote Crist J. Clark thusly... > > On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 08:16:42PM -0500, parv_@yahoo.com wrote: > > >Description: > > > > 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. ... > > I can't reproduce this, and I from checking the code I really can't > see how this could happen. Are you sure that you are really removing > the manpage(s) completely from /usr/local/man (i.e. if the page has > multiple links, you'd need to get all of them)? hi crist, you came late to the party. this pr had already been closed. it was my own damn fault to confuse apropos listing w/ makewhatis functioning. please see the closing remarks. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=32954 - parv -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message