Bug 18255
| Summary: | makewhatis weekly job doesn't look at /usr/local | ||||||
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| Product: | Base System | Reporter: | Lowell Gilbert <lowell> | ||||
| Component: | misc | Assignee: | freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs> | ||||
| Status: | Closed FIXED | ||||||
| Severity: | Affects Only Me | ||||||
| Priority: | Normal | ||||||
| Version: | 3.4-STABLE | ||||||
| Hardware: | Any | ||||||
| OS: | Any | ||||||
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On 2000-04-27 09:31 -0400, lowell@world.std.com wrote: > The period script that runs makewhatis doesn't have /usr/local in > its path, so manpath(1) doesn't include /usr/local/man, so ports and > packages don't get included in the database. The most obvious fix > is to put /usr/local into the /etc/crontab PATH setting, but that's > a bad idea (because root crontab runs *shouldn't* be running > anything from /usr/local in a default system anyway). Hammering it > into the periodic script that calls makewhatis seems like a better > way. I think care should be taken to make sure that the correct value of LOCALBASE is used. The default value is /usr/local as shown in /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk: 01:18 [charon@hades /usr/ports/Mk]$ grep -n '^LOCALBASE' bsd.port.mk 685:LOCALBASE?= ${DESTDIR}/usr/local Since this can be customized in /etc/make.conf, the following part of the patch might not always be correct: + PATH=${PATH}:/usr/local/bin - Giorgos State Changed From-To: open->closed Superseded by PR conf/56626. |
The period script that runs makewhatis doesn't have /usr/local in its path, so manpath(1) doesn't include /usr/local/man, so ports and packages don't get included in the database. The most obvious fix is to put /usr/local into the /etc/crontab PATH setting, but that's a bad idea (because root crontab runs *shouldn't* be running anything from /usr/local in a default system anyway). Hammering it into the periodic script that calls makewhatis seems like a better way. Fix: This isn't very pretty, but cron jobs shouldn't by default be running anything from /usr/local, so it shouldn't otherwise be in the path. Better fixes would be fine with me... How-To-Repeat: As "McClain, Michael" posted to freebsd-questions: > In FreeBSD 3.4, is makewhatis broken? > 'man bash' shows the man page, .apropos bash' says nothing appropriate. Obviously, this will apply to any installed ports or packages.