Re: man-db 69c problem
On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 09:29:19AM -0800, Joseph Carter wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 11:12:43AM -0600, Ossama Othman wrote:
> > Yesterday I upgraded man-db on my potato system to man-db 69c. The
> > upgrade broke man so that man could no longer find the man pages. Is
> > there something else that I need to do? Could my MANPATH be broken?
>
> If it didn't ask, well you could edit the new config by hand fixing the
> /usr/share's to /usr's.
The correct fix is this:
Apply this patch to /etc/manpath.config
---------------------------------------------------------------cut
--- man-db-2.3.10/src/man_db.config Sat Mar 13 01:28:27 1999
+++ /etc/manpath.config Tue Mar 16 08:06:09 1999
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
#
# *MANPATH* -> *CATPATH*
#
-MANDB_MAP /usr/man /var/cache/man
+MANDB_MAP /usr/man /var/cache/man/fsstnd
MANDB_MAP /usr/share/man /var/cache/man
MANDB_MAP /usr/local/man /var/cache/man/local
MANDB_MAP /usr/X11R6/man /var/cache/man/X11R6
---------------------------------------------------------------cut
Just add something to one of the two lines with /var/cache/man .
man-db -68d is installed and should hit the mirrors briefly.
fab
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