Re: CVS commit: basesrc/etc

[Luke Mewburn <lukem%wasabisystems.com@localhost>]

On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 08:34:18PM +0400, Valeriy E. Ushakov wrote:
> To clarify this a bit.
> 
> apropos(1) processes globs in _whatdb entries, but catman(8) doesn't.
> 
> Catman needs to be updated to ignore _whatdb alltogether and use the
> same logic for running makewhatis it uses for man paths.  This will
> make catman -w -M /usr/pkg/man  DTRT.
> 
> Wiz and I (since I fixed another glob-related issue recently, which
> I'm now starting to regret ;-) discussed this briefly and so far it
> seems easier to temporarily revert Luke's globifying of _whatdb.

Oops! I was in the process of looking at and finishing off PR 1904
and got distracted.  If you want work with me on this, feel free.

luke.