Re: makemandb errors from pkgsrc

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 02:12:30PM -0600, Dave Huang wrote:
> 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

That's Ruby 1.9.1? I've fixed the 1.9.2 and 1.9.3 packages in
pkgsrc/current...

Joerg