[arch-general] What update left mandb scrambled?

Edvinas Valatka edacval at gmail.com
Tue Feb 26 12:33:18 UTC 2019


On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 8:57 AM David C. Rankin
<drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
>
> This was odd,
>
>  $ apropos memcmp
> memcmp: nothing appropriate.
>
>  In fact, no man pages were available (checked 2 arch installs). I ended up
> having to rebuild the database with 'mandb' and now all is well.
>
>  My question is -- what did this? It must have occurred in the last couple of
> days.
>
After https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/man-db&id=a296a036a34944f714488f43bf576cca58bda604
, you have to manualy enable man-db.timer


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