(once again) freebsd-update cron and man whatis

[Marko Cupać]

On Tue, 11 Aug 2015 09:31:04 +0100
Matthew Seaman <matthew at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 08/11/15 08:21, Marko Cupać wrote:
> 
> > - Next morning I get notification from freebsd-cron for the same
> > update I installed yesterday, but only for /usr/share/man/whatis.
> > (not ok)
> 
> Did you by any chance happend to run the weekly/320.makewhatis
> periodic script that night?   It is enabled by default.  However, you
> shouldn't need it if you maintain your system entirely through
> freebsd-update.

Hi Matthew,

thank you for looking into it. I do maintain most of my systems
entirely through freebsd-update, but with modified freebsd-update.conf
so that it does not fetch sources.

I have two systems which are redownloading /usr/share/man/whatis since
Sunday update to -p17. Would things be clearer if I ran
weekly/320.makewhatis and observed if that prevented re-downloads?

What would be long-term solution for this? I
guess /usr/share/man/whatis is compiled from src. As I have removed
'src' from freebsd-update.conf, and I have nothing under /usr/src,
should I add /usr/share/man/whatis to IgnorePaths? I see it is already
there for IDSIgnorePaths.

Regards,
-- 
Marko Cupać
https://www.mimar.rs/