On my system, "man gcc" works fine, but "man -k gcc" results in "gcc:
nothing appropriate.".

It looks like there are two implementations, so I'll note that virtual/man
is currently being satisfied by sys-apps/man-db.

Before I list everything I've already checked and tried, does anyone immediately recognize this issue? Can anyone else reproduce it?

I'll preempt one obvious suggestion:
$ ls -l /var/cache/man/index.db
-rw-r--r-- 1 man man 2666496 Oct 31 18:45 /var/cache/man/index.db

Thanks all,
-MD

<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On my system, &quot;man gcc&quot; works fine, but &quot;man -k gcc&quot; results in &quot;gcc: nothing appropriate.&quot;.<div><br></div><div>It looks like there are two implementations, so I&#39;ll note that virtual/man is
currently being satisfied by sys-apps/man-db.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Before I list everything I&#39;ve already checked and tried, does anyone immediately recognize this issue? Can anyone else reproduce it?</div><div><br></div><div>I&#39;ll
preempt one obvious suggestion:</div><div>$ ls -l /var/cache/man/index.db<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 man man 2666496 Oct 31 18:45 /var/cache/man/index.db<br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks all,</div><div>-MD</div></div>
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On 10/31/24 6:56 PM, Mitchell Dorrell wrote:

On my system, "man gcc" works fine, but "man -k gcc" results in "gcc:
nothing appropriate.".

It looks like there are two implementations, so I'll note that virtual/man
is currently being satisfied by sys-apps/man-db.

Before I list everything I've already checked and tried, does anyone immediately recognize this issue? Can anyone else reproduce it?

It may be related to Gentoo's unusual use of $MANPATH to hide slotted
manpages outside of /usr/share/man


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Eli Schwartz

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On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 7:12 PM Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@gentoo.org> wrote:

On 10/31/24 6:56 PM, Mitchell Dorrell wrote:

On my system, "man gcc" works fine, but "man -k gcc" results in "gcc: nothing appropriate.".

It may be related to Gentoo's unusual use of $MANPATH to hide slotted manpages outside of /usr/share/man

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Eli Schwartz

Were you able to reproduce it?

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Il 01/11/24 02:31, Mitchell Dorrell ha scritto:

On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 7:12 PM Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@gentoo.org> wrote:

On 10/31/24 6:56 PM, Mitchell Dorrell wrote:

On my system, "man gcc" works fine, but "man -k gcc" results in "gcc:
nothing appropriate.".

It may be related to Gentoo's unusual use of $MANPATH to hide slotted
manpages outside of /usr/share/man

--
Eli Schwartz

Were you able to reproduce it?

yes

raf

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