* Updated Cygwin yesterday, makewhatis is not present on my system @ 2014-07-01 19:20 Keith Christian 2014-07-01 19:26 ` Chris J. Breisch 0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread From: Keith Christian @ 2014-07-01 19:20 UTC (permalink / raw) To: cygwin 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 Has "makewhatis" been superseded by something else?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 -- 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
* Re: Updated Cygwin yesterday, makewhatis is not present on my system 2014-07-01 19:20 Updated Cygwin yesterday, makewhatis is not present on my system Keith Christian @ 2014-07-01 19:26 ` Chris J. Breisch 2014-07-01 20:47 ` Keith Christian 0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread From: Chris J. Breisch @ 2014-07-01 19:26 UTC (permalink / raw) To: cygwin 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 Has "makewhatis" been superseded by something else?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 man has been replaced by man-db, which does not have a makewhatis.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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
* Re: Updated Cygwin yesterday, makewhatis is not present on my system 2014-07-01 19:26 ` Chris J. Breisch @ 2014-07-01 20:47 ` Keith Christian 2014-07-01 22:05 ` Andrey Repin 2014-07-02 12:04 ` Chris J. Breisch 0 siblings, 2 replies; 8+ messages in thread From: Keith Christian @ 2014-07-01 20:47 UTC (permalink / raw) To: cygwin 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.ml@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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
* Re: Updated Cygwin yesterday, makewhatis is not present on my system 2014-07-01 20:47 ` Keith Christian @ 2014-07-01 22:05 ` Andrey Repin 2014-07-02 12:04 ` Chris J. Breisch 1 sibling, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread From: Andrey Repin @ 2014-07-01 22:05 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Keith Christian, cygwin 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. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 02.07.2014, <02:02> Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
* Re: Updated Cygwin yesterday, makewhatis is not present on my system 2014-07-01 20:47 ` Keith Christian 2014-07-01 22:05 ` Andrey Repin @ 2014-07-02 12:04 ` Chris J. Breisch 2014-07-02 12:50 ` Andrey Repin 2014-07-02 12:59 ` Keith Christian 1 sibling, 2 replies; 8+ messages in thread From: Chris J. Breisch @ 2014-07-02 12:04 UTC (permalink / raw) To: cygwin 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
* Re: Updated Cygwin yesterday, makewhatis is not present on my system 2014-07-02 12:04 ` Chris J. Breisch @ 2014-07-02 12:50 ` Andrey Repin 2014-07-02 14:09 ` Chris J. Breisch 2014-07-02 12:59 ` Keith Christian 1 sibling, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread From: Andrey Repin @ 2014-07-02 12:50 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Chris J. Breisch, cygwin Greetings, Chris J. Breisch! >> Ok, I think I have figured it out. Will the now unnecessary files >> created by "makewhatis" be purged or overwritten by mandb? > Oh, that's a good question about the unnecessary files. I should add > that cleanup to the install scripts, since it obsoletes man. Actually, I think it should be added to man obsoleting package, rather than to an install script of some unrelated package. Even if that package is, in fact, supercede the first one. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 02.07.2014, <16:35> Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
* Re: Updated Cygwin yesterday, makewhatis is not present on my system 2014-07-02 12:50 ` Andrey Repin @ 2014-07-02 14:09 ` Chris J. Breisch 0 siblings, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread From: Chris J. Breisch @ 2014-07-02 14:09 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Andrey Repin; +Cc: cygwin Hello Andrey, Wednesday, July 2, 2014, 8:37:11 AM, you wrote: > Greetings, Chris J. Breisch! >>> Ok, I think I have figured it out. Will the now unnecessary files >>> created by "makewhatis" be purged or overwritten by mandb? >> Oh, that's a good question about the unnecessary files. I should add >> that cleanup to the install scripts, since it obsoletes man. > Actually, I think it should be added to man obsoleting package, rather than to > an install script of some unrelated package. Even if that package is, in fact, > supercede the first one. Yes, I thought about that. The problem is that it won't help upgraders to new versions of mandb. Since the obsoleted package will have already been removed. I'll have to give this some thought. -- 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
* Re: Updated Cygwin yesterday, makewhatis is not present on my system 2014-07-02 12:04 ` Chris J. Breisch 2014-07-02 12:50 ` Andrey Repin @ 2014-07-02 12:59 ` Keith Christian 1 sibling, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread From: Keith Christian @ 2014-07-02 12:59 UTC (permalink / raw) To: cygwin 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.ml@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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
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