mandb behavior

Rahul Sundaram metherid at gmail.com
Tue Feb 15 14:10:13 UTC 2011


On 02/10/2011 07:02 AM, Mark Bidewell wrote:
> I was working with CentOS 5 and I was noticing some what appear to be
> functional regressions in F14 mandb:
>
> 1)  In the centos configuration you can specify manpaths with wildcard
> expansions.  Example:  /opt/*/man would specify all man subdirectories
> in /opt.  In F14 this no longer works.
> 2) In F14, directories specified in the MANPATH environment variable
> seem to be ignored.
>
> Are these intended?

I guess not.  File a bug report in bugzilla please.

Rahul


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