# 20240916 bkw: this may end up in the template, so explanation: # # The "man -k", "apropos", and "whatis" commands in Slackware's # man-db rely on a database of man pages, that gets built nightly by # /etc/cron.daily/man-db, which runs the mandb command. This means any # man pages installed by SBo packages should get added to the database # within 24 hours of the time they're installed. # # Well and good, except it doesn't always work: if the timestamps on # the /usr/man/man* directories in the package are older than the last # time the cron job ran, then the next time it runs, mandb will see # that the timestamp is older than the database, and will not search # for new man pages. In fact, when this happens, the man pages *never* # get added to the database. # # If you only ever install packages right after building them, you # won't have this problem. However, if you install an older package # you built yesterday (last week, etc), its /usr/man/man* timestamps # will be older than the man database... # # It's easy enough to avoid the problem. Duncan Roe came up with the # idea for this on the mailing list: Touch the man directories in the # doinst.sh script for any build that installs man pages. The new # man pages will get added to the database the next time the cronjob # runs. # # It does *not* mean that "man -k" will be able to find newly # installed man pages *immediately* after installing a new # package... but then, as pointed out by KB_SBo (aka King Beowulf) # on the mailing list, "locate" can't find the new files immediately # either (it updates nightly, same as mandb), and nobody complains # about that. [ -d usr/man ] && find usr/man -type d -exec touch {} +