Bug 454880
| Summary: | makewhatis does not index all man pages. | ||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Andrew Piziali <andy> | ||||
| Component: | man | Assignee: | Ivana Varekova <varekova> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED WORKSFORME | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | low | ||||||
| Version: | 9 | ||||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | All | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2008-07-23 07:02:48 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
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One other data point: The implementation of makewhatis in Fedora Core 8 (man version 1.6e, release 3.fc7) does not exhibit this bug. Hello, I just try to reproduce this bug, but I was unsuccessful. I used the same version of man-package but apropos shell command works for me, please do you use makewhatis command before you run apropos?. Could you attach /var/cache/man/whatis file which was generated. Thanks. > I just try to reproduce this bug, but I was unsuccessful. I used the > same version of man-package but apropos shell command works for me, > ... Just to confirm, you used man-1.6f-4.fc6? > ... please do you use makewhatis command before you run apropos? Yes. As configured by default in Fedora 9, makewhatis is run both daily and weekly. Daily it is run by cron with the -u (update database) option while weekly the full database is rebuilt. > Could you attach /var/cache/man/whatis file which was generated? With some effort, yes. The machine is in a small town in Oregon that I was visiting and I am now back in Texas. I'll have to instruct the machine user on how to revert makewhatis back to the version installed by man-1.6f-4.fc6, backing out my fix, and manually run makewhatis as it is run by cron. I will post an update to this bug report and the attached /var/cache/man/whatis file this week. Thanks. I test both man-1.6f-4.fc9 and the last man-1.6f-5.fc9.i386 versions - and in both cases everything was ok. Thanks for your effort. Created attachment 312407 [details]
/var/cache/man/whatis
This is the /var/cache/man/whatis database rebuilt using the original
makewhatis distributed with man-1.6f-4.fc9. Unfortunately it does not exhibit
the problem originally reported! I reverted makewhatis on this Fedora 9 system
to the original version and will monitor any evidence that it fails to index
all man pages, both those that use .SH NAME and those that use .SH
"NAME".
Thanks for your help. For now I will close this bug as worksforme but if you see this problem again please reopen it and copy /var/cache/man/whatis here. |
Description of problem: The program "apropos" (and its equivalent "man -k") fails to find many man pages that include the search term in their "NAME" line because makewhatis does not index pages that define the NAME section header without quoting NAME: .SH NAME Only those man pages that quote NAME as in: .SH "NAME" are indexed. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): man-1.6f-4.fc9.i386 How reproducible: Always fails. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Note the word "shell" in the NAME section of the bash man page by running "man bash." 2. apropos shell 3. Note that bash man page is not reported. Actual results: bash man page is not reported by "apropos shell." Expected results: bash man page (and all other shell man pages) should reported by "apropos shell" Additional info: The failure is due to makewhatis only stripping punctuation characters from the left edge of words while processing raw man pages and not those from the right edge. The bug is corrected by applying the following patch to /usr/sbin/makewhatis: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- --- /usr/sbin/makewhatis- 2008-04-07 04:12:54.000000000 -0700 +++ /usr/sbin/makewhatis 2008-07-10 07:21:51.000000000 -0700 @@ -296,7 +296,9 @@ } while (!done && readline() > 0) { - gsub(/.\b/, ""); + gsub(/.\b/, ""); # Remove punctuation adjacent to words, + gsub(/\b./, ""); # such as the double quotes surrounding + # NAME in: .SH "NAME" if (($1 ~ /^\.[Ss][Hh]/ && ($2 ~ /[Nn][Aa][Mm][Ee]/ || $2 ~ /^JMÉNO/ || $2 ~ /^NAVN/ || $2 ~ /^NUME/ || -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- I recreated my whatis database using "makewhatis -w" and all shell man pages are now reported by "apropos shell."