Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2025 00:21:35 +0100 From: Lexi Winter <ivy@freebsd.org> To: polyduekes@proton.me, "freebsd-pkgbase@freebsd.org" <freebsd-pkgbase@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: man -k and man -f not working with pkgbase 15-stable installation Message-ID: <aMiff3O1Ei7lVzAz@amaryllis.le-fay.org> In-Reply-To: <aMbohRlVbPTp6Dwd@amaryllis.le-fay.org> References: <ZMo1-6b921XJ-Hq1Z2fpy_wKP0PwR3_hv80BOWsky2cLZ3ZwZMUGPoZ6sTsfDjYy5a7w2XCCFG__FqmCTL5iJgKSGZ6bA6Z5-ojw66cKV10=@proton.me> <aMbohRlVbPTp6Dwd@amaryllis.le-fay.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Lexi Winter: > polyduekes@proton.me: > > [...] 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 [...] > > the problem here seems to be that makewhatis isn't run by pkg when (new) > manpages are installed. this will be fixed by https://reviews.freebsd.org/D52564, which causes makewhatis(8) to be run when new packages are installed. this requires the pkg(8) PR https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/pull/2516, which allows pkg to search for triggers in /usr/share/pkg and not just /usr/local/share/pkg. i hope to land both of these changes for 15.0-RELEASE. [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHUEABYKAB0WIQSyjTg96lp3RifySyn1nT63mIK/YAUCaMifewAKCRD1nT63mIK/ YAYCAP9NQEcqbUG4ccTON98TuYae1vkNOoFm6VEbEs9GmHPVzgD7BdEfWWNwFrI4 zRDF97+IMPiEt23UJUfDUDAsXk5cBgQ= =sbbz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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