Re: makemandb errors from pkgsrc

[Dave Huang <khym%azeotrope.org@localhost>]

On 2/27/12 12:33 PM, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> In article <4F4BA91A.5010900%julipedia.org@localhost>,
> Julio Merino <jmmv%julipedia.org@localhost>  wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> Since the apropos GSoC project was imported into NetBSD and the cron
>> jobs changed to index the manpages, I'm getting my daily report flooded
>> with errors caused by the processing of pkgsrc manual pages.  (See below.)
>> 
>> I don't know if these errors are legitimate.  But even if they are, why
>> should I, as an admin of a given machine, care about them?  There is not
>> much I can do about the errors, and seeing them in every single daily
>> report is annoying.
>> 
>> Thanks.
> 
> I think that this got fixed recently.

Hmm, I just upgraded one of my machines to -current, and am still seeing this:

Building temporary file cache
makemandb: /usr/pkg/man/man1/erb19.1: Parse failure
makemandb: Error in indexing /usr/pkg/man/man1/erb19.1
makemandb: /usr/pkg/man/man1/irb19.1: Parse failure
makemandb: Error in indexing /usr/pkg/man/man1/irb19.1
makemandb: /usr/pkg/man/man1/ri19.1: Parse failure
makemandb: Error in indexing /usr/pkg/man/man1/ri19.1
makemandb: /usr/pkg/man/man1/ruby19.1: Parse failure
makemandb: Error in indexing /usr/pkg/man/man1/ruby19.1

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