Re: man -k and man -f not working with pkgbase 15-stable installation

thanks, is this problem reported somewhere? i don't think it's ideal to permanently rely on this workaround
-------- Original Message --------
On 13/09/25 12:34 am, Graham Perrin <grahamperrin@gmail.com> wrote:

>  On 12/09/2025 19:04, polyduekes@proton.me wrote:
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>  > recently decided to give a try to 15-stable so i grabbed the alpha 1 disc1 iso and decided to go the pkgbase way, the installation went fine and smooth, finished the installation, rebooted into the freshly installed system, tried doing man -k dtrace, got "apropos: nothing appropriate" weird,  tried doing man -f dtrace, again got "whatis: nothing appropriate", tried the same with other manpages like "sh" and the other result was the same, at this point i startes the installer again and reinstalled 15-alpha1 but with "traditional installation" this time and man -k and man -f started working properly in that traditional installation system
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>  With 15.0-PRERELEASE installed by the ALPHA1 installer, I find the same
>  issue. Worked around:
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>  makewhatis
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