From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212 Description of problem: You have an error in /usr/sbin/makewhatis, which prevents some commands like 'postfix' from appearing in /var/cache/man/whatis. I traced it down to this : At the end of do_one(), for the 'ls' and 'postfix' man pages : entire_line == "ls \- list directory contents" entire_line == "postfix \Postfix control program" In handle_entire_line() : if (!match(x, / - /)) return; which rids of 'postfix'. The difference between the two pages is : .SH NAME ls \- list directory contents and .SH NAME postfix \- Postfix control program Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. man -k postfix 2. 3. Additional info:
refixed in man-1.5k-5+