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Subject: Re: Updated Cygwin yesterday, makewhatis is not present on my system
From: Keith Christian <keith1christian AT gmail DOT com>
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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

On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Chris J. Breisch <chris DOT ml AT breisch DOT org> wrote:
> Keith Christian wrote:
>>
>> Yesterday, I updated my Cygwin install.  I run "makewhatis" after
>> every Cygwin update, and it's not there.  "whatis" works, curious how
>> its database is created and where it is stored.
>>
>> Has "makewhatis" been superseded by something else?  Didn't find any
>> references in the mailing list.
>>
>> Keith
>>
>
> man has been replaced by man-db, which does not have a makewhatis.
>
> mandb -q has similar functionality.
>
>
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