apropos returning same item twice

Steven Friedrich FreeBSD at insightbb.com
Wed Sep 15 22:27:22 UTC 2010


On Wednesday 15 September 2010 12:39:15 pm Wayne Sierke wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 00:37 +0000, Alexander Best wrote:
> > On Sat Sep 11 10, Steven Friedrich wrote:
> > > Why does apropos list mysql(1) twice?
> > > 
> > > It doesn't return duplicates with apropos kde...
> > 
> > maybe you have a gzip'ed and plain version in /usr ?
> > 
> > see PR #4419.
> > 
> > cheers.
> > alex
> 
> Are you certain that /etc/manpath.config doesn't just still
> have /usr/X11R6/man configured (as well as /usr/local/man)? Admittedly
> the kde issue is a mystery, assuming its manpages are installed
> in /usr/local/man. This system has the following:
> 
> OPTIONAL_MANPATH	/usr/local/man
> # (disabled by xorg-libraries port) OPTIONAL_MANPATH	/usr/X11R6/man
> 
> MANPATH_MAP	/usr/local/bin		/usr/local/man
> # (disabled by xorg-libraries port)
> MANPATH_MAP	/usr/X11R6/bin	/usr/X11R6/man
> 
> 
> Is the whatis file being updated? Check the timestamp:
> 
> # ls -l /usr/local/man/whatis
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  273178 Sep 11 04:22 /usr/local/man/whatis
> 
> 
> Wayne
> 
> > > admin at laptop2(/dev/pts/1)/usr/home/admin 106% apropos mysql
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I still have X11R6 in usr symlinked to /usr/local. This was done per entry 
20070519 in /usr/ports/UPDATING.

Do we still need this symlink?

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System Name:   laptop2.StevenFriedrich.org
Hardware:      2.80GHz Intel Pentium 4 (HTT) with 2 GB memory
OS version:    FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE i386 (6.9 MB kernel)
manager(s):    kde4-4.5.1 
X windows:     xorg-7.5    X.Org X Server 1.7.5


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