Colin Watson wrote: > > Unfortunately, apropos doesn't work out of the box. You have > > to run mandb in order for it to build the apropos database, > > this is done the first time cron runs, but on a system like > > mine where cron never runs, well it just doesn't happen. Just > > > > mandb did mandb Purging old database entries in /usr/share/man mandb: can't update index cache /var/cache/man/index.bt: No such file or directory. Processing manual paes under /usr/share/man fopen: No such file or directory Updating indes cache for path '/usr/share/man". Wait... mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/vdex.1x.gz: whatis parse for vdesk(1x) failed ... Purging old database entries in /usr/local/man... mandb: can't update index cache /var/cache/man/oldlocal/index.bt: No such file or directory. Processing manual pages under /usr/local/man... fopen: No such file or directory ... Purging old database entries in /usr/X11R6/man... mandb: can't update index cache /var/cache/man/X11R6/index.bt: No such file or directory. Processing manual pages under /usr/X11R6/man... fopen: No such file or directory ...
mandb no errors now Are those errors normal for a first invokation of mandb? > > I fixed this in man-db 2.3.20-20, after a fashion: the database won't > get updated over time unless you have cron enabled, but this is > difficult to avoid without making man a pain to use; at least you get a > database built with the man pages from base packages. > > Do you think it's worth me making an upload to stable with just this > change, to see if it'll be let into 3.0r1? I have never been involved in developing Debian, so I better should remain silent on this (although I appreciate all improvements). Axel Schlicht -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
