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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.
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