[21080] in Athena Bugs
Re: whatis, man -k, etc
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Fri Nov 15 19:09:11 2002
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 19:09:08 -0500
Message-Id: <200211160009.TAA24709@abulia.mit.edu>
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
To: Carter Snowden <csnowden@MIT.EDU>
CC: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: "[21042] in Athena Bugs"
> After adding a locker, man -k, whatis, and apropos aren't looking for
> a whatis file (if there is one) in the man dir of that locker in the
> same way that Suns look for a windex file.
Yes, the Linux whatis and apropos scripts are broken. Actually, they
make two search passes -- one to see if the string is found, and another
to display the match -- but only include $MANPATH whatis files in the
second pass. So they fail to show anything in a locker whatis, unless
the thing you're looking for also happens to be in the system whatis.
We will fix this in a future release by installing corrected versions
of these scripts.
Thanks for your bug report.
Bob
