On 30-Mar-98 Geoff Wing spoke unto us all:
# Charlie Root <root@polaris.garbled.net> typed:
# :>Number:         5231
# :>Category:       bin
# :>Synopsis:       makewhatis does not deal with multiple man dirs
# :>Organization:
#
# We already have B.  RTFM, makewhatis(8)

My stupid mistake.. ugh.. (slaps self in forehead)

# 
# 
# run ``/usr/libexec/makewhatis /usr/pkg/man'' and not be disappointed.  What 
# should really be done is grep the _whatdb lines from man.conf, makewhatis
# on the path of those and install on the full name.

You are correct, so here is a redo.. this grabs the _whatdb lines and builds
each of them. It requires that your _whatdb lines are set up correctly in
man.conf. 


#! /bin/sh
#
#       $NetBSD: makewhatis.sh,v 1.13 1998/03/21 23:46:00 tron Exp $
#
# Recent changes by Tim Rightnour 03/29/1998 to make it work on multiple
# man dirs. Slight cleanup as well.
#
# written by matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>, based on the
# original by J.T. Conklin <jtc@netbsd.org> and Thorsten
# Frueauf <frueauf@ira.uka.de>.
#
# Public domain.
#

# The variables below make it slightly easier to put in local hacks to 
# getname and the sed routines.

GETNAME=/usr/libexec/getNAME
SEDFILE=/usr/share/man/makewhatis.sed
LIST=/tmp/makewhatislist$$
TMP=/tmp/whatis$$
trap "rm -f $LIST $TMP; exit 1" 1 2 15

# first perform a quick sanity check, and make sure all the dirs exist.
# could do all of this in one loop, But we waste no CPU if the last path
# element is bogus this way.

MANX=`cat /etc/man.conf | grep '^_whatdb' | awk '{print $2}' | xargs`

for TMPWHAT in $MANX
do
    TMPDIR=`echo $TMPWHAT | sed 's/\/whatis.db//'`
    if test ! -d "${DESTDIR}$TMPDIR"; then 
        echo "makewhatis: ${DESTDIR}$TMPDIR: not a directory"
        exit 1
    fi
done

# now make the list.

for TMPWHAT in $MANX
do
    rm -f $TMP $LIST
    TMPDIR=`echo $TMPWHAT | sed 's/\/whatis.db//'`
    find ${DESTDIR}$TMPDIR \( -type f -o -type l \) -name '*.[0-9]*' -ls | \
        sort -n | awk '{if (u[$1]) next; u[$1]++ ; print $11}' > $LIST

    egrep '\.[1-9]$' $LIST | xargs ${GETNAME} | \
        sed -e 's/ [a-zA-Z0-9]* \\-/ -/' > $TMP

    egrep '\.0$' $LIST | while read file
    do
        sed -n -f ${DESTDIR}${SEDFILE} $file;
    done >> $TMP

    egrep '\.[0].(gz|Z)$' $LIST | while read file
    do
        gzip -fdc $file | sed -n -f ${DESTDIR}${SEDFILE};
    done >> $TMP

    sort -u -o $TMP $TMP

    install -o bin -g bin -m 444 $TMP "$TMPWHAT"
done

rm -f $LIST $TMP
exit 0


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Tim Rightnour    -  root@garbled.net
http://www.zynetwc.com/~garbled/garbled.html