man-db-2.4.4 /usr/man path
Chris Staub
chris at beaker67.com
Wed Aug 8 01:42:46 MDT 2007
dragosi at web.de wrote:
> In chapter 6.45, a sed command removes two paths from the MANDATORY_PATH
> in the man_db.conf; one of them /usr/man.
>
> However, I've found that there are some man pages in /usr/man and subsequently,
> because of the path not being in man_db.conf, I can't display these man pages
> (for example, bash).
> Add the entry back to man_db.conf in the MANDATORY_PATH section, and it works.
>
> I've followed LFS-SVN20070731 without changes to man-db or bash, so I'm wondering
> if this is intentional behaviour or did I do make an error somewhere on the way?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dragos
The /usr/man line is commented out as being redundant because LFS
instructions create a /usr/man -> /usr/share/man symlink. If you have a
separate /usr/man directory with manpages then you missed the symlink.
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