Bugzilla Bug 38321

After countless Gentoo installs with varying configuration options, I have
never been able to obtain a listing of manpages from man using "man -k."
For example, I emerged vim, and if I perform "man -k vim," man responds "vim:
nothing appropriate;" but upon a man vim, I receive a man page.
I made certain to install using "doc" in my use flags, so I cannot understand
why this happens.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.man vim
2.man -k vim
3.

Actual Results:  
1.) Returns VIM manpage
2.) Responds "vim: nothing appropriate."

Expected Results:  
1.) Return VIM manpage
2.) Return a listing of manpages containing vim.

cdimage / # emerge info
Portage 2.0.49-r21 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.21-gss)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.21-gss i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.8p1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fprefetch-loop-arrays"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fprefetch-loop-arrays"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo
ftp://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://mirror.tucdemonic.org/gentoo/
http://gentoo.noved.org/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/usr/src"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X Xaw3d aalib acpi alsa apm arts avi berkdb bonobo cdr crypt cups curl dga
directfb doc dvd dvdr emacs encode esd evo fam fbcon flac flash foomaticdb gb
gdbm ggi gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gps gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml imagemagick imap
imlib ipv6 java jpeg kde kerberos lcms lesstif libg++ libwww mad maildir mcal
mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg mysql nas ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl
oss pam pda pdflib perl png pnp ppds python qt quicktime readline samba scanner
sdl slang speex spell sse ssl svga tcpd tetex tiff truetype unicode usb wmf
wxwindows x86 xml xml2 xmms xv zlib"

Try uncommenting in /etc/cron.daily/makewhatis.cron:
#/usr/sbin/makewhatis

and run makewhatis once.

That appeared to fix it. I installed vixie-cron and did not modify the
configuration settings, so I am curious why Gentoo would not want to re-build
the listing periodically by default.

ok, the man database is updated by default now but it's installed into
cron.weekly instead of cron.daily

any issues i miss ?

Great work.