Some manual pages never get into the whatis database. The makewhatis script seems to effectively skip files that contain "unorthodox" formatting. For example, all Postfix's man page headers are formatted like this: .SH NAME postfix \- Postfix control program Reformatted thusly it's all right for makewhatis: .SH NAME postfix \- Postfix control program I'm not sure if this sort of formatting is allowed in man pages, so this may just be a bug in Postfix man pages. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. run /usr/sbin/makewhatis 2. run apropos (man -k) Actual Results: $ man -k postfix postfix: nothing appropriate Expected Results: $ man -k postfix access (5) - format of Postfix access table aliases (5) - format of the Postfix alias database bounce (8) - Postfix message bounce or defer daemon canonical (5) - format of Postfix canonical table cleanup (8) - canonicalize and enqueue Postfix message error (8) - Postfix error mailer flush (8) - Postfix fast flush server lmtp (8) - Postfix local delivery via LMTP local (8) - Postfix local mail delivery master (8) - Postfix master process etc. Version of makewhatis: sys-apps/man-1.5l-r6 Version of postfix: net-mail/postfix-2.0.19 Output of "emerge info": Portage 2.0.50-r3 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.4.22) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.22 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13 distcc 2.12.1 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=i686 -O2 " CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=i686 -O2 " DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/ http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext X aalib alsa apm arts avi berkdb cdr crypt cups dvd dvdr encode esd foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gtk imlib java jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx mmx2 motif mozilla mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png ppds python qt quicktime readline scanner sdl slang spell sse sse2 ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype usb video_cards_matrox x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"
Created attachment 29112 [details, diff] Patch to fix makewhatis hyphenation In case multiple-line headers are allowed in man pages, this patch might be useful. Tested on my system with no side effects.
Bug-wranglers, I have all I can handle at the moment, please pass to somebody else
could you check out 1.5m-r2 ? the code there now reads: if ($0 ~ /[^ \\]-$/) { sub(/-$/, ""); # Handle Hyphenations nextjoin = 1;
Tested with 1.5m-r2: "man -k postfix" works. Splendid!
