Bug 98373 - makewhatis is just plain broken
Summary: makewhatis is just plain broken
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: man
Version: 9
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Eido Inoue
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
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Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-07-01 19:54 UTC by Steve Coile
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:55 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2003-08-08 16:41:40 UTC
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Description Steve Coile 2003-07-01 19:54:13 UTC 
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Description of problem:
Broken since at least RHL 7.1.

makewhatis doesn't handle man directories outside its fixed path.  Attempting to
add a new man directory to the whatis database clobbers the existing database
completely.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
man-1.5k-6

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. man -k ls; man -k tripwire
2. makewhatis /usr/local/tripwire/tfs/man
3. man -k ls; man -k tripwire
    

Actual Results:  Existing whatis database gets overwritten.

Expected Results:  Existing database is augmented.

Additional info:
Comment 1 Eido Inoue 2003-08-08 16:41:40 UTC 
not a bug. To update an existing database and not overwrite the previous
version, you need to use the command option "-u".
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