Bug 98373
| Summary: | makewhatis is just plain broken | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Steve Coile <scoile> |
| Component: | man | Assignee: | Eido Inoue <havill> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Ben Levenson <benl> |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 9 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2003-08-08 16:41:40 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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not a bug. To update an existing database and not overwrite the previous version, you need to use the command option "-u". |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 Description of problem: Broken since at least RHL 7.1. makewhatis doesn't handle man directories outside its fixed path. Attempting to add a new man directory to the whatis database clobbers the existing database completely. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): man-1.5k-6 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. man -k ls; man -k tripwire 2. makewhatis /usr/local/tripwire/tfs/man 3. man -k ls; man -k tripwire Actual Results: Existing whatis database gets overwritten. Expected Results: Existing database is augmented. Additional info: