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

On 12/09/2025 20:06, polyduekes@proton.me wrote:
> thanks, is this problem reported somewhere? i don't think it's ideal to permanently rely on this workaround


I'm not aware of a report, if you'd like to add it to Bugzilla.

I see this in freebsd.update.sh:

<https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/66d8ffe3046ded1eb3f78599c6af8eb965482ef5/usr.sbin/freebsd-update/freebsd-update.sh#L3151-L3161>

– but I don't know how things are done with FreeBSD Installer, when 
legacy files are used instead of packages.


> -------- 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:
>>   
>>   > 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
>>   >
>>   
>>   With 15.0-PRERELEASE installed by the ALPHA1 installer, I find the same
>>   issue. Worked around:
>>   
>>   makewhatis
>>   
>>