Bug 23436 – makewhatis sys-apps/man minor functionality improvement

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Paul Thompson 2003-06-24 23:03:53 UTC]

As documented in the man page, makewhatis can take a subsections
argument (-s). Unfortunately, this is currently broken due to the
way arguments are referenced. This is a patch Ive been using
for a while. Basicly, it allows the script to parse:
-s "1 2 3"
as "1 2 3" being one argument to -s, rather than just pairing
the '1' to -s and choking on 2 and 3 as separate args.

[Comment 1 Paul Thompson 2003-06-24 23:05:06 UTC]

Created attachment 13815 [details, diff]
trivial patch to makewhatis

[Comment 2 Tavis Ormandy (RETIRED) 2003-09-05 16:10:22 UTC]

Confirmed, looks like an obvious flaw in their logic.

assigning to me...

[Comment 3 Tavis Ormandy (RETIRED) 2003-09-05 16:32:01 UTC]

This has been fixed in man-1.5m2, with the same fix you suggested :)

1.5m2 should be in portage shortly.

RESOLVED, FIXED.