On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 04:56:39PM -0400, Ludovic Court�s wrote: > civodul pushed a commit to branch master > in repository guix. > > commit a0b87ef8ec7735aa42cf35d380e9cff04f3236f3 > Author: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.courno...@gmail.com> > Date: Wed Apr 5 01:09:22 2017 -0700 > > profiles: Generate database file for man pages. > > The mandb database file (index.db) is used by the "apropos" (whatis) or > "man -k" commands. This change introduces a profile hook to generate > such database file. > > * guix/profiles.scm (manual-database): New procedure. > (%default-profile-hooks): Add it. > > Co-authored-by: Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org>
Recently, I notice messages like this when doing profile operations: [...] creating manual page database for 49 packages... find-files: /gnu/store/0y3qrzzwfxf601g885967wcringvnw69-gimp-2.8.18/share/man/man1/gimp-console.1: No such file or directory [...] The file in question is a symlink: $ ls -l /gnu/store/0y3qrzzwfxf601g885967wcringvnw69-gimp-2.8.18/share/man/man1/gimp-console.1 lrwxrwxrwx 5 root root 21 Dec 31 1969 /gnu/store/0y3qrzzwfxf601g885967wcringvnw69-gimp-2.8.18/share/man/man1/gimp-console.1 -> gimp-console-2.8.1.gz
