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.

On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 18:50:30 +0300, Thomas Klausner wrote:

> From: Thomas Klausner <wiz@netbsd.org>
> Subject: CVS commit: basesrc/etc
> To: source-changes@netbsd.org
> Reply-To: wiz@netbsd.org
> Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 18:50:30 +0300 (EEST)
> 
> 
> Module Name:	basesrc
> Committed By:	wiz
> Date:		Sun Jul 29 15:50:30 UTC 2001
> 
> Modified Files:
> 	basesrc/etc: man.conf
> 
> Log Message:
> Undo last: glob(3) isn't used for _whatdb (yet?).
> [broke e.g. installation of devel/netcdf]
> 
> 
> To generate a diff of this commit:
> cvs rdiff -r1.20 -r1.21 basesrc/etc/man.conf

SY, Uwe
-- 
uwe@ptc.spbu.ru                         |       Zu Grunde kommen
http://www.ptc.spbu.ru/~uwe/            |       Ist zu Grunde gehen