man_db.conf in /usr/etc

Bryan Kadzban bryan at kadzban.is-a-geek.net
Sun Mar 30 06:16:17 MDT 2008


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Nathan Coulson wrote:
> Dont remember seeing this mentioned, so I wanted to inform the
> mailing list.

There was a post about it[1], but no response.  I'm going to just assume
that /usr/etc is wrong here.  :-)

> It looks like mandb is sticking the configuration file in the /usr
> folder.

Without looking at man-db's configury, I'd assume that it would fix it
if we simply set --sysconfdir=/etc?  If it's that simple, I'm all for it.

[1] http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-dev/2008-March/061128.html
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