Bug 23436

Summary:	makewhatis sys-apps/man minor functionality improvement
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Paul Thompson <set.mailinglist>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Tavis Ormandy (RETIRED) <taviso>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	mr_bones_
Priority:	High
Version:	1.4_rc4
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	trivial patch to makewhatis

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) gentoo-dev

2003-09-05 16:10:22 UTC

Confirmed, looks like an obvious flaw in their logic.

assigning to me...

Comment 3 Tavis Ormandy (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

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.