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Re: Updated Cygwin yesterday, makewhatis is not present on my system
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>
- To: Keith Christian <keith1christian at gmail dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2014 02:03:58 +0400
- Subject: Re: Updated Cygwin yesterday, makewhatis is not present on my system
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Greetings, Keith Christian!
> 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.
Check list archive about end of a previous month. People met something akin to
your error, I recall. And narrowed a kind of solution.
> Ok, I think I have figured it out. Will the now unnecessary files
> created by "makewhatis" be purged or overwritten by mandb?
Neither. man-db just don't know, neither care about them.
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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 02.07.2014, <02:02>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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