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| Name: makewhat | Distribution: openSUSE Tumbleweed |
| Version: 2009.6.17 | Vendor: openSUSE |
| Release: 24.17 | Build date: Sat Mar 16 12:17:45 2019 |
| Group: System/Base | Build host: reproducible |
| Size: 3322 | Source RPM: makewhat-2009.6.17-24.17.src.rpm |
| Packager: https://bugs.opensuse.org | |
| Url: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Base:System/makewhat | |
| Summary: Utilities to 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 such a database.
GPL-2.0-or-later
* Sat Mar 16 2019 Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
- Trim author list and %clean section.
- Use noun phrase in summary and update description.
* Thu Mar 07 2019 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Skip %verify(not link mtime) from symbolic links %_bindir even if
those should not hurt but avoid superfluous verify messages
* Wed Mar 06 2019 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Use update-alternatives to allow that makewhatis(1) can be
overwritten by an other package like mandoc
* 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
/etc/alternatives/makewhatis /usr/sbin/makewhatis /usr/sbin/makewhatis.mw
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