Bug 60676 - makewhatis breaks
Summary: makewhatis breaks
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: man
Version: 7.3
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: wdovlrrw
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-03-04 17:43 UTC by David Balažic
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:40 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2002-03-23 14:44:45 UTC
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Description David Balažic 2002-03-04 17:43:25 UTC 
On a fresh 7.2.90 system :

# makewhatis
/usr/sbin/makewhatis: cd: /usr/man: No such file or directory

the whatis database is not built
Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2002-03-07 14:42:32 UTC 
Not reproducable in 7.2.91.
Comment 2 David Balažic 2002-03-23 14:44:40 UTC 
The same on beta2 for me.
Maybe something created /usr/man on your system and that "covers" the bug ?
I did a minimum fresh install.
Comment 3 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2002-03-25 13:50:15 UTC 
No, I don't have a /usr/man and I can't find anything in the code needing it. It's listed  
as a secondary man path (and that should stay for legacy applications), but there's  
nothing in the code that would insist on it. 
 
This is in beta3, of course, maybe something was changed in between.
Comment 4 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2002-03-25 14:07:51 UTC 
Oh, found the problem. It's triggered only if no existing whatis database exists. Fixed in 
-6.
Comment 5 David Balažic 2002-03-27 10:49:30 UTC 
Bug still in beta3, as it has only man-1.5j-5
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