Bug 9644 – man -k failes with no result

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Ben de Luca 2002-10-25 04:59:04 UTC]

[Comment 1 Ben de Luca 2002-10-25 05:00:21 UTC]

I went on the chat room on openprojects

no one reported it to be working

[Comment 2 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2002-10-25 05:12:11 UTC]

have you, in fact, built your whatis database yet?  man makewhatis :P

[Comment 3 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2002-10-25 05:13:08 UTC]

having said that, there was some discussion some time ago about automating the
updates of the whatis database.  I think it was concluded that the user might do
that in a cron job or so.

I've added other developers to this bug, to get their input.

[Comment 4 Ben de Luca 2002-10-25 08:15:49 UTC]

Maybe the man ebuild should at least
run the command or there should be a note if its not automatic


must admit if i had rtfm
i would have seen it

[Comment 5 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2002-11-02 14:44:35 UTC]

well, here's the thing, the man ebuild installs a cron file and an entry in
cron.daily (it has cronbase as its dependency).  so, all you would have to do is
configure your cron, and this would all be taken care of anyway...