Re: man -k and man -f not working with pkgbase 15-stable installation
- In reply to: Lexi Winter : "Re: man -k and man -f not working with pkgbase 15-stable installation"
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Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2025 23:21:35 UTC
Lexi Winter: > polyduekes@proton.me: > > [...] 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 [...] > > the problem here seems to be that makewhatis isn't run by pkg when (new) > manpages are installed. this will be fixed by https://reviews.freebsd.org/D52564, which causes makewhatis(8) to be run when new packages are installed. this requires the pkg(8) PR https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/pull/2516, which allows pkg to search for triggers in /usr/share/pkg and not just /usr/local/share/pkg. i hope to land both of these changes for 15.0-RELEASE.