Re: bug in makewhatis?

[Brian Wheeler <bdwheele indiana edu>]

On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 13:19 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 12:58 -0500, Brian Wheeler wrote:
> > I've been trying to figure out where apropos/whatis is finding this.
> > 
> > --------
> > [bdwheele wombat etc]$ whatis fuse
> > Fuse                 (3pm)  - write filesystems in Perl using FUSE
> > fuse                (rpm) - File System in Userspace (FUSE) utilities
> > fuse-devel          (rpm) - File System in Userspace (FUSE) devel files
> > fuse-libs           (rpm) - File System in Userspace (FUSE) libraries
> > fuse-smb            (rpm) - FUSE-Filesystem to fast and easy access
> > remote resources via SMB
> > [bdwheele wombat etc]$ man fuse
> > No manual entry for fuse
> > --------
> > 
> > Where are these 'rpm' section man pages coming from in the makewhatis
> > index?  It'd be nice if there was some actual output (like installation
> > time, version, etc) when one did a man on an RPM page...
> 
> This is a (somewhat silly) patch in our makewhatis that adds the names
> of all installed rpms to the database...
> 

Its actually helpful -- I've used it to discover packages I didn't know
about, but it is a bit confusing, since the man page comes up empty. 

Brian