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Bug #11683
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Automatically maintain whatis database
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100%
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Description
When man pages are installed or removed during a package operation, it would be good if the man page index (whatis database) was automatically refreshed.
Updated by Andy Fiddaman almost 3 years ago
Review at: https://www.illumos.org/rb/r/2270/
This is based on a change that has been in OmniOS for a while.
I tested it by installing packages which contain man pages and ensuring that the whatis database was rebuilt automatically, for example:
bloody% apropos zyd
bloody% pfexec pkg install zyd
Packages to install: 1
Services to change: 1
bloody% apropos zyd
zyd(7d) - ZyDAS ZD1211/ZD1211B USB 802.11b/g Wireless Driver
bloody% tail `svcs -L update-man-index`
[ Sep 18 08:19:17 Method "start" exited with status 0. ]
[ Sep 18 08:20:23 Stopping because service restarting. ]
[ Sep 18 08:20:23 Executing stop method (null). ]
[ Sep 18 08:20:23 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/update-man-index /usr/share/man:/usr/has/man"). ]
Rebuilding man page index using /opt/ooce/share/man:/usr/gnu/share/man:/usr/has/man:/usr/man:/usr/share/man
[ Sep 18 08:20:23 Method "start" exited with status 0. ]
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Updated by Electric Monk almost 3 years ago
- Status changed from In Progress to Closed
- % Done changed from 0 to 100
git commit 2b77347cd95dc12475fe2af8a715097166d0523a
commit 2b77347cd95dc12475fe2af8a715097166d0523a
Author: Andy Fiddaman <omnios@citrus-it.co.uk>
Date: 2019-09-20T07:10:46.000Z
11683 Automatically maintain whatis database
Reviewed by: Rich Lowe <richlowe@richlowe.net>
Reviewed by: Yuri Pankov <yuri.pankov@nexenta.com>
Approved by: Dan McDonald <danmcd@joyent.com>
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