Chris, So (I'm talking to you as if you are the maintainer of man-db....(are you?)) mandb sounds like the man system Debian uses, where (at least a few years ago) the whatis database is created by invoking "mandb -C."
Testing this - "mandb" alone creates the databases, even though there is a "-c" argument to"mandb," which I am running at this moment. "mandb -c" is emitting errors as it runs, "can't open," "bad symlink," "whatis parse for xxxxxx failed," etc. Ok, I think I have figured it out. Will the now unnecessary files created by "makewhatis" be purged or overwritten by mandb? Keith On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Chris J. Breisch <chris...@breisch.org> wrote: > Keith Christian wrote: >> >> Yesterday, I updated my Cygwin install. I run "makewhatis" after >> every Cygwin update, and it's not there. "whatis" works, curious how >> its database is created and where it is stored. >> >> Has "makewhatis" been superseded by something else? Didn't find any >> references in the mailing list. >> >> Keith >> > > man has been replaced by man-db, which does not have a makewhatis. > > mandb -q has similar functionality. > > > -- > Chris J. Breisch > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
