[Slackbuilds-users] always run `mandb -c` after installing/removing manpages?

Arkadiusz Drabczyk arkadiusz at drabczyk.org
Sun Aug 11 18:03:16 UTC 2024


In most packages manual page index caches are not updated which leads
to the following situation:

$ man -k zathura
zathura: nothing appropriate.

man -k can find the manpages only when caches are updated:

$ sudo mandb -c
$ man -k zathura
zathura (1)          - a document viewer
zathurarc (5)        - zathura configuration file

Unfortunately it takes some time, for example 10 seconds on my system.

sbopkglint already has 60-usr_info.t.sh, should a similar error
regarding manpages also be addded?

I know there is /etc/cron.daily/man-db but the command specified there
does not traverse /usr/man/man1/ where zathura manpages are located
for some reason:

$ man -w zathura
/usr/man/man1/zathura.1.gz

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Arkadiusz Drabczyk <arkadiusz at drabczyk.org>


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