makewhatis wierdness in 4.9-stable

[Kenneth W Cochran]

>Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 00:13:52 +0300 (MSK)
>From: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck at rinet.ru>
>To: Kenneth W Cochran <kwc at TheWorld.com>
>cc: freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
>Subject: Re: makewhatis wierdness in 4.9-stable
>
>On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Kenneth W Cochran wrote:
>
>KWC> Since makewhatis went from Perl to C I get the following output
>KWC> in the weekly periodic/maintenance run:
>KWC>
>KWC> Rebuilding whatis database:
>KWC> makewhatis: /usr/local/man/man1/scp.old.1: No such file or directory
>KWC> makewhatis: /usr/local/man/man1/ssh-add.old.1: No such file or directory
>KWC> makewhatis: /usr/local/man/man1/ssh-agent.old.1: No such file or directory
>KWC> makewhatis: /usr/local/man/man1/ssh-keygen.old.1: No such file or directory
>KWC> makewhatis: /usr/local/man/man1/ssh.old.1: No such file or directory
>KWC>
>KWC> Is something "strange" in /etc/*?  Maybe something mergemaster
>KWC> didn't quite fix during a cvsup/{make,install}world?
>
>I suppose these are stale symlinks. What do you get by issuing
>
>ls -l /usr/local/man/man1/*.old.1
>
>?

$ ls -l /usr/local/man/man1/*.old.1
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  wheel   6 Jan 19  2003 /usr/local/man/man1/scp.old.1 -> scp2.1
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  wheel  10 Jan 19  2003 /usr/local/man/man1/ssh-add.old.1 -> ssh-add2.1
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  wheel  12 Jan 19  2003 /usr/local/man/man1/ssh-agent.old.1 -> ssh-agent2.1
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  wheel  13 Jan 19  2003 /usr/local/man/man1/ssh-keygen.old.1 -> ssh-keygen2.1
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  wheel   6 Jan 19  2003 /usr/local/man/man1/ssh.old.1 -> ssh2.1
$

Hmmm...  Any idea how this has happened?  I've tracked
-stable since early 4.x times.

-kc

>Sincerely,
>D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
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