Re: woody + apropos
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 12:38:30PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
> On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 12:23:42PM +0200, Lars D. Nood?n wrote:
> > Should the command apropos work 'out of the box'?
> > I've recently done a fresh install of woody and get no hits when searching
> > with apropos, even though the relevant man pages exist:
> >
> > # apropos ls
> > ls: nothing appropriate.
> > # apropos apt-get
> > apt-get: nothing appropriate.
> > # apropos lynx
> > lynx: nothing appropriate.
> > # apropos bash
> > bash: nothing appropriate.
> >
> > -Lars
>
> I think this is a bug against manpages. Same thing here.
Nope, the poster was right. Since I shut off my machine at night, and don't
like anacron, cron never runs. I just ran /etc/cron.daily/man-db as root,
and it built the database and apropos works.
It still might be worth a bug; the postinst only builds the database
on fresh installs if man-db is not installed setuid. I don't
understand that; seems like it needs a database.
(Copying man-db@packages.debian.org)
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