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Date:      Fri, 17 Sep 2010 12:18:36 -0400
From:      Steven Friedrich <FreeBSD@insightbb.com>
To:        Wayne Sierke <ws@au.dyndns.ws>
Cc:        Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: apropos returning same item twice
Message-ID:  <201009171218.38065.FreeBSD@insightbb.com>
In-Reply-To: <1284624764.20540.650.camel@predator-ii.buffyverse>
References:  <201009111442.49114.FreeBSD@insightbb.com> <201009151827.04122.FreeBSD@insightbb.com> <1284624764.20540.650.camel@predator-ii.buffyverse>

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On Thursday 16 September 2010 4:12:44 am Wayne Sierke wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 18:27 -0400, Steven Friedrich wrote:
> > On Wednesday 15 September 2010 12:39:15 pm Wayne Sierke wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 00:37 +0000, Alexander Best wrote:
> > > > On Sat Sep 11 10, Steven Friedrich wrote:
> > > > > Why does apropos list mysql(1) twice?
> > > > > 
> > > > > It doesn't return duplicates with apropos kde...
> > > > 
> > > > maybe you have a gzip'ed and plain version in /usr ?
> > > > 
> > > > see PR #4419.
> > > > 
> > > > cheers.
> > > > alex
> > > 
> > > Are you certain that /etc/manpath.config doesn't just still
> > > have /usr/X11R6/man configured (as well as /usr/local/man)? Admittedly
> > > the kde issue is a mystery, assuming its manpages are installed
> > > in /usr/local/man. This system has the following:
> > > 
> > > OPTIONAL_MANPATH	/usr/local/man
> > > # (disabled by xorg-libraries port) OPTIONAL_MANPATH	/usr/X11R6/man
> > > 
> > > MANPATH_MAP	/usr/local/bin		/usr/local/man
> > > # (disabled by xorg-libraries port)
> > > MANPATH_MAP	/usr/X11R6/bin	/usr/X11R6/man
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Is the whatis file being updated? Check the timestamp:
> > > 
> > > # ls -l /usr/local/man/whatis
> > > -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  273178 Sep 11 04:22 /usr/local/man/whatis
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Wayne
> > > 
> > > > > admin@laptop2(/dev/pts/1)/usr/home/admin 106% apropos mysql
> > 
> > <snip>
> > 
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> > 
> > I still have X11R6 in usr symlinked to /usr/local. This was done per
> > entry 20070519 in /usr/ports/UPDATING.
> > 
> > Do we still need this symlink?
> 
> Yes, anything that references /usr/X11R6 gets directed to /usr/local.

Well I temporarily removed it and this anomaly disappeared. Perhaps we just 
have to suffer until we know the symlink can be removed. I thought it was 
going to eventually be removed...

> 
> Did you check /etc/manpath.config and the timestamp
> on /usr/local/man/whatis?
> 
grep -v '^#' manpath.config                                     
MANDATORY_MANPATH       /usr/share/man                                                             
MANDATORY_MANPATH       /usr/share/openssl/man
OPTIONAL_MANPATH        /usr/local/man
MANPATH_MAP     /bin                    /usr/share/man
MANPATH_MAP     /usr/bin                /usr/share/man
MANPATH_MAP     /usr/local/bin          /usr/local/man
OPTIONAL_MANPATH        /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.12.2/man
OPTIONAL_MANPATH        /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.12.2/perl/man


> Another check is that the output of manpath(1) doesn't
> include /usr/X11R6/man.
> 

manpath
/usr/share/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/local/kde4/man:/usr/share/openssl/man:/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.12.2/man:/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.12.2/perl/man

> 
> Wayne

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System Name:   laptop2.StevenFriedrich.org
Hardware:      2.80GHz Intel Pentium 4 (HTT) with 2 GB memory
OS version:    FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE i386 (6.9 MB kernel)
manager(s):    kde4-4.5.1 
X windows:     xorg-7.5    X.Org X Server 1.7.5



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