conf/56626: whatis(1) does not include ports

Oliver Eikemeier eikemeier at fillmore-labs.com
Tue Sep 9 05:10:04 PDT 2003


>Number:         56626
>Category:       conf
>Synopsis:       whatis(1) does not include ports
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Sep 09 05:10:00 PDT 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Oliver Eikemeier
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.9-PRERELEASE i386
>Organization:
Fillmore Labs - http://www.fillmore-labs.com
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD nuuk.fillmore-labs.com 4.9-PRERELEASE

>Description:

The weekyly scripts
  /etc/periodic/weekly/320.whatis
  /etc/periodic/weekly/330.catman
do not include man pages from /usr/X11R6/man, on -STABLE the pages
from /usr/local/man are missing too.

>How-To-Repeat:

Try
  whatis portupgrade
on -STABLE with port sysutils/portupgrade installed or
  whatis fc-list
on -CURRENT with port x11-fonts/fontconfig installed

>Fix:

/etc/crontab sets PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin, and
  env PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin /usr/bin/manpath -q
does not contain /usr/X11R6/man (and /usr/local/man on -STABLE)

add

OPTIONAL_MANPATH	/usr/local/man
OPTIONAL_MANPATH	/usr/X11R6/man

to src/gnu/usr.bin/man/manpath/manpath.config (the first line is
only needed for RELENG_4, it is already in HEAD)


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