Bug 39271 - /usr/sbin/makewhatis seems broken in man-1.5i-2
Summary: /usr/sbin/makewhatis seems broken in man-1.5i-2
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Raw Hide
Classification: Retired
Component: man
Version: 1.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
QA Contact: Aaron Brown
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: 40652 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-05-06 16:23 UTC by dunwoody
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:33 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-05-06 16:23:33 UTC
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Description dunwoody 2001-05-06 16:23:29 UTC 
There seems to have been a regression in /usr/sbin/makewhatis between
man-1.5h1-20 (which
works fine for me) and man-1.5i-2.  With man-1.5i-2 installed in my Rawhide
20010503 system,
the command "makewhatis -u -w" produces:

/usr/sbin/makewhatis: makewhatis7xGQza/w: No such file or directory
/usr/sbin/makewhatis: makewhatis7xGQza/w: No such file or directory
/usr/sbin/makewhatis: makewhatis7xGQza/w: No such file or directory
/usr/sbin/makewhatis: makewhatis7xGQza/w: No such file or directory
/usr/sbin/makewhatis: makewhatis7xGQza/w: No such file or directory
/usr/sbin/makewhatis: makewhatis7xGQza/w: No such file or directory
/usr/sbin/makewhatis: makewhatis7xGQza/w: No such file or directory
/usr/sbin/makewhatis: makewhatis7xGQza/w: No such file or directory

Looking at the /usr/sbin/makewhatis scripts in man-1.5h1-20 and man-1.5i-2,
there seems to have
been a change in the handling of temp files via mktemp.
Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2001-05-06 17:14:10 UTC 
Fixed in 1.5i-3
Comment 2 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2001-05-16 12:05:06 UTC 
*** Bug 40652 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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