docs/85986: FreeBSD keyword missing if you display security(7) with apropos
Murray Stokely
murray at freebsdmall.com
Sun Jan 29 02:50:09 UTC 2006
The following reply was made to PR docs/85986; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Murray Stokely <murray at freebsdmall.com>
To: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon at FreeBSD.org>
Cc: freebsd-doc at FreeBSD.org, bug-followup at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: docs/85986: FreeBSD keyword missing if you display security(7) with apropos
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 18:41:54 -0800
On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 09:00:36PM +0000, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> On 2005.09.11 20:12:46 +0000, Matthias Schmidt wrote:
>
> > If you type apropos security to get the security(7) man page the word "Fr=
> eeBSD" is missing,
> >=20
> > matthias at c0re:/ % apropos security
> > security(7) - introduction to security under
> > ^^^^
>
> I would say this should be fixed in apropos rather than adding a
> workaround to a specific manual page, especially since I would suspect
> that other manual pages are also affected.
>
> That said, I have no idea how complicated it would be to fix it in
> apropos.
I think we should just submit the patch as is rather than fixing
makewhatis(1). tuning(7) written by the same author just uses
'FreeBSD' instead of .Fx and therefore shows up properly.
I could not find any other examples of man pages that have this
problem, leading me to conclude that hacking up makewhatis would be
overengineering the solution.
- Murray
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