Bug 82601 - man -k postfix => postfix: nothing appropriate
Summary: man -k postfix => postfix: nothing appropriate
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: man
Version: 8.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Eido Inoue
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-01-23 22:12 UTC by guilde.nt
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:50 UTC (History)
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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2003-02-19 21:43:49 UTC
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Description guilde.nt 2003-01-23 22:12:18 UTC
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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

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. man -k postfix
2.
3.
    

Additional info:

Comment 1 Eido Inoue 2003-02-19 21:43:49 UTC
refixed in man-1.5k-5+


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