Chris, What is the path and filespec of the (now un-needed) files created by "makewhatis" for curiosity's sake?
Keith On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 6:04 AM, Chris J. Breisch <chris...@breisch.org> wrote: > Keith Christian wrote: >> >> 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 >> > > Yes, I'm the maintainer. > > mandb -c creates the database, and will generate warnings. You likely > already had a database created though, as that's handled when you install > mandb. > > mandb without any arguments updates the database, and mandb -q updates it > quietly. > > Oh, that's a good question about the unnecessary files. I should add that > cleanup to the install scripts, since it obsoletes man. > > > > > > > -- > 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
