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Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2014 08:04:00 -0400
From: "Chris J. Breisch" <chris.ml@breisch.org>
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Subject: Re: Updated Cygwin yesterday, makewhatis is not present on my system
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Keith Christian wrote:
> Chris,
>
> 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.
>
> Ok, I think I have figured it out.  Will the now unnecessary files
> created by "makewhatis" be purged or overwritten by mandb?
>
> Keith
>

Yes, I'm the maintainer.

mandb -c creates the database, and will generate warnings. You likely 
already had a database created though, as that's handled when you 
install mandb.

mandb without any arguments updates the database, and mandb -q updates 
it quietly.

Oh, that's a good question about the unnecessary files. I should add 
that cleanup to the install scripts, since it obsoletes man.


-- 
Chris J. Breisch

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