Hello Andrey,
Wednesday, July 2, 2014, 8:37:11 AM, you wrote:
> Greetings, Chris J. Breisch!
>>> Ok, I think I have figured it out. Will the now unnecessary files
>>> created by "makewhatis" be purged or overwritten by mandb?
>> Oh, that's a good question about the unnecessary files. I should
Chris,
What is the path and filespec of the (now un-needed) files created by
"makewhatis" for curiosity's sake?
Keith
On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 6:04 AM, Chris J. Breisch wrote:
> Keith Christian wrote:
>>
>> Chris,
>>
>> So (I'm talking to you as if you are the maintainer of man-db(are
>> you?
Greetings, Chris J. Breisch!
>> Ok, I think I have figured it out. Will the now unnecessary files
>> created by "makewhatis" be purged or overwritten by mandb?
> Oh, that's a good question about the unnecessary files. I should add
> that cleanup to the install scripts, since it obsoletes man.
A
Keith Christian wrote:
Chris,
So (I'm talking to you as if you are the maintainer of man-db(are
you?)) mandb sounds like the man system Debian uses, where (at least a
few years ago) the whatis database is created by invoking "mandb -C."
Testing this - "mandb" alone creates the databases, ev
Greetings, Keith Christian!
> So (I'm talking to you as if you are the maintainer of man-db(are
> you?)) mandb sounds like the man system Debian uses, where (at least a
> few years ago) the whatis database is created by invoking "mandb -C."
> Testing this - "mandb" alone creates the databases
Chris,
So (I'm talking to you as if you are the maintainer of man-db(are
you?)) mandb sounds like the man system Debian uses, where (at least a
few years ago) the whatis database is created by invoking "mandb -C."
Testing this - "mandb" alone creates the databases, even though there
is a "-c"
Keith Christian wrote:
Yesterday, I updated my Cygwin install. I run "makewhatis" after
every Cygwin update, and it's not there. "whatis" works, curious how
its database is created and where it is stored.
Has "makewhatis" been superseded by something else? Didn't find any
references in the ma
Yesterday, I updated my Cygwin install. I run "makewhatis" after
every Cygwin update, and it's not there. "whatis" works, curious how
its database is created and where it is stored.
Has "makewhatis" been superseded by something else? Didn't find any
references in the mailing list.
Keith
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