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Date:	Wed, 2 Jul 2014 02:03:58 +0400
From:	Andrey Repin <anrdaemon AT yandex DOT ru>
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To:	Keith Christian <keith1christian AT gmail DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: Updated Cygwin yesterday, makewhatis is not present on my system
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Greetings, Keith Christian!

> So (I'm talking to you as if you are the maintainer of man-db....(are
> you?)) mandb sounds like the man system Debian uses, where (at least a
> few years ago) the whatis database is created by invoking "mandb -C."

> Testing this - "mandb" alone creates the databases, even though there
> is a "-c" argument to"mandb," which I am running at this moment.
> "mandb -c" is emitting errors as it runs, "can't open," "bad symlink,"
> "whatis parse for xxxxxx failed," etc.

Check list archive about end of a previous month. People met something akin to
your error, I recall. And narrowed a kind of solution.

> Ok, I think I have figured it out.  Will the now unnecessary files
> created by "makewhatis" be purged or overwritten by mandb?

Neither. man-db just don't know, neither care about them.


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Andrey Repin (anrdaemon AT yandex DOT ru) 02.07.2014, <02:02>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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