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| Name: makewhat | Distribution: SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP5 |
| Version: 2009.6.17 | Vendor: openSUSE |
| Release: bp155.2.9 | Build date: Wed May 17 16:52:14 2023 |
| Group: System/Base | Build host: obs-power8-03 |
| Size: 3266 | Source RPM: makewhat-2009.6.17-bp155.2.9.src.rpm |
| Packager: https://bugs.opensuse.org | |
| Summary: Create a whatis Database | |
The man system in SUSE Linux (package man) does not need a whatis
database. Nevertheless some manual browsers, such as tkman, still need
this database. For this reason, we included this package.
Authors:
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Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
GPL-2.0+
* Tue Aug 06 2013 werner@suse.de
- Redirect stderr of whatis(1) to catch standard warning message
of whatis(1) (bnc#832678)
* Wed Jan 25 2006 mls@suse.de
- converted neededforbuild to BuildRequires
* Tue Nov 08 2005 dmueller@suse.de
- don't build as root
* Wed May 28 2003 coolo@suse.de
- use BuildRoot
* Tue Sep 17 2002 ro@suse.de
- removed bogus self-provides
* Thu Dec 14 2000 werner@suse.de
- Group tag
* Wed Dec 15 1999 werner@suse.de
- Move whatis files to /var/cache/man/ hierarchy and set
a symbolic link into the old location
- Use program manpath instead of $MANPATH
* Mon Sep 13 1999 bs@suse.de
- ran old prepare_spec on spec file to switch to new prepare_spec.
* Wed Jul 14 1999 bs@suse.de
- fixed path for catman dir.
- typo fix.
* Mon Mar 23 1998 werner@suse.de
- created new script, that uses man db.
- set version to `date`
/usr/sbin/makewhatis
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