Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: man2html
currently man2html indexes a limited amount of manpages. The database is
created as a postinst script:
# taken from man2html/man2html-1.6e/debian/postinst
34 if [ -e /usr/local/man ]; then
35 LOCALMAN=$(find /usr/local/man -type d -name "man?")
36 fi
37
38 if [ -e /usr/local/share/man ]; then
39 LOCALSMAN=$(find /usr/local/share/man -type d -name
"man?")
40 fi
41
42
43 index++ --config-file=/usr/share/man2html/swish++.conf \
44 /usr/share/man/man* \
45 /usr/man/man* \
46 /usr/X11R6/man/man* $LOCALMAN $LOCALSMAN 2>&1 >
"$tf" &
# end from from man2html/man2html-1.6e/debian/postinst
This is insufficient because:
1) it leaves out /opt/man/, which is by default in the manpath of ubuntu 8.04
2) does not adapt when users add manpages in nonstandard paths. The solution
simply would be to echo the manpath using the manpath utility and pipe the
output to awk. This should not be a problem as man2html already depends on
gnu-awk and the man-db utilities. Then the database should be updated from this
information
for example, this is my manpath:
$ manpath
/usr/local/man:/usr/local/share/man:/opt/wget/share/man:/usr/share/man:/opt/nessus/man
3) includes no documentation concerning how to update the database, or how the
database was original created by the postinstall script
thanks
orbisvicis
** Affects: man2html (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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manpage index incomplete, insufficient docs
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/246816
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