bin/47939: catman does not honor makemandb and will error-out when called with '-w', /etc/weekly.conf is wrong too

[Wolfgang.Stukenbrock%nagler-company.com@localhost]

>Number:         47939
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       catman does not honor makemandb and will error-out when called 
>with '-w', /etc/weekly.conf is wrong too
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    bin-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Jun 17 08:40:00 +0000 2013
>Originator:     Dr. Wolfgang Stukenbrock
>Release:        NetBSD 6.1
>Organization:
Dr. Nagler & Company GmbH
>Environment:
        
        
System: NetBSD test-s0 5.1.2 NetBSD 5.1.2 (NSW-WS) #3: Fri Dec 21 15:15:43 CET 
2012 wgstuken@test-s0:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/NSW-WS amd64
Architecture: x86_64
Machine: amd64
>Description:
        Since NetBSD 6.x the way manual full text search is done changed from 
"old-style" whatis to makemandd (/var/run/man.db).
        The binary installatin files honor this - no /usr/libexec/makewhatis is 
installed anymore, but the command
        catman still tries to call it if called with option '-w'.

        The default setup in /etc/weekly.conf is also wrong for systems useing 
makemandb.
        There 'rebuild_whatisdb=YES' is still included and not 
'rebuild_mandb=YES' that would rebuld the database.

>How-To-Repeat:
        Install e.g. 6.1 and call "catman -w".
        You will see the followin error message:

usr/libexec/makewhatis /usr/share/man
sh: /usr/libexec/makewhatis: not found
catman: *** Exited 32512

        The exit value of catman is 1, so any script (or cron-job) that uses 
this and check the return value will
        fail too.

>Fix:
        The correct way would be to change the implemantation of the catman 
command, so that it does no longer
        call /usr/libexec/makewhatis if makemandb is the way the current system 
is setup.
        I'm not shure about the way how to figure this out - either at compile 
time or at runtime.
        (The "makemandb" selection is used when building binary sets from 
list-files.)

        A possible sollution at runtime would be to check for the 
/usr/libexec/makewhatis binary prior calling it
        and - depending on the correct way to handle makemandb-recreation - 
either do nothing, print a warning or error
        message or call an other program ("/usr/sbin/makemandb" with some 
options as far as I've seen till now) to do
        the requested job.

        On systems that uses makemandb, in /etc/weekly.conf there should be
        ''rebuild_whatisdb=NO' and 'rebuild_mandb=YES' instead of 
'rebuild_whatisdb=YES'.
        I'm not shure how to detect this during compilation. In the list-files 
the "makemandb" selection does this when
        building the binary sets.

>Unformatted: