[PATCH] man-db: create man db index file

[PATCH] man-db: create man db index file

[Kai Kang]

The man db index file doesn't exist, it causes commands whatis, apropos
and 'man -f' don't work as expect:

| root@qemux86-64:# whatis hosts
| hosts: nothing appropriate.

Run command mandb to create man db index file when first boot.

Signed-off-by: Kai Kang <kai.kang@windriver.com>
---
 meta/recipes-extended/man-db/man-db_2.8.2.bb | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/man-db/man-db_2.8.2.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/man-db/man-db_2.8.2.bb
index 797f770408d..f47d66ce3df 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/man-db/man-db_2.8.2.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/man-db/man-db_2.8.2.bb
@@ -21,6 +21,10 @@ do_install_append_libc-musl() {
         rm -f ${D}${libdir}/charset.alias
 }
 
+pkg_postinst_ontarget_${PN} () {
+        ${bindir}/mandb -q
+}
+
 FILES_${PN} += "${prefix}/lib/tmpfiles.d"
 
 FILES_${PN}-dev += "${libdir}/man-db/libman.so ${libdir}/${BPN}/libmandb.so"
-- 
2.11.0

Re: [PATCH] man-db: create man db index file

[Alexander Kanavin]

On 06/04/2018 01:58 PM, Kai Kang wrote:

> +pkg_postinst_ontarget_${PN} () {
> +        ${bindir}/mandb -q
> +}
> +

man-db is only the tools for manpages, but not the actual pages. So this 
will not work as expected when installing or removing packages that 
contain manpages. It should be added to classes/manpages.bbclass 
instead, with a RDEPENDS += "man-db". You can also fix man-pages_4.14.bb 
to inherit the class at the same time.

Oh, and you can also take qemu into use, so that this works also for 
read only rootfs, and doesn't add to first boot time, like this:
https://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/commit/?h=akanavin/package-version-updates&id=b42a7a733c7a6b51118ccb3fe6e33c35ac12b4ae

Alex

Re: [PATCH] man-db: create man db index file

[Kang Kai]

On 2018年06月04日 19:42, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
> On 06/04/2018 01:58 PM, Kai Kang wrote:
>
>> +pkg_postinst_ontarget_${PN} () {
>> +        ${bindir}/mandb -q
>> +}
>> +
>
> man-db is only the tools for manpages, but not the actual pages. So 
> this will not work as expected when installing or removing packages 
> that contain manpages. It should be added to classes/manpages.bbclass 
> instead, with a RDEPENDS += "man-db". You can also fix 
> man-pages_4.14.bb to inherit the class at the same time.
>
> Oh, and you can also take qemu into use, so that this works also for 
> read only rootfs, and doesn't add to first boot time, like this:
> https://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/commit/?h=akanavin/package-version-updates&id=b42a7a733c7a6b51118ccb3fe6e33c35ac12b4ae 
>
>
> Alex
>
Hi Alex,

Thanks a lot. I'll try it.

-- 
Regards,
Neil | Kai Kang