From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows; U; AIIEEEE!; Win98; Windows 98; en-US; Gecko masquerading as IE; should it matter?; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050217 Description of problem: This is just a suggested enhancement to 'makewhatis'. Instead of initializing the whatis database with: cp /dev/null $whatisdb how about: # Initialize with summary data from rpm packages rpm --dbpath /usr/lib/rpmdb/redhat -qa --queryformat '%-19{NAME} (rpm) - %{SUMMARY}\r' | tr -d '\n' | tr '\r' '\n' >$whatisdb The \r is used so as to preserve \n's in summary. There used to be a complete rpm database of all packages but it seems to have disappeared recently. Anyhow it can be easily created with: find xxx -name \*.rpm -exec rpm --dbpath /usr/lib/rpmdb/redhat --justdb -i --nodeps '{}' ';' Some people might find it useful because it helps tie in rpm database to apropos/man -k. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): man-1.5p-4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.n/a 2. 3. Additional info:
Thank you for your report. I think this feature is quite useful. It is in the last man package now (man-1.6b-2).