Re: bin/46419: Inconsistent information in man.db for man page aliases after updation

[Matthew Mondor <mm_lists%pulsar-zone.net@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/46419; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Matthew Mondor <mm_lists%pulsar-zone.net@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/46419: Inconsistent information in man.db for man page
 aliases after updation
Date: Sun, 6 May 2012 20:44:57 -0400

 On Sun,  6 May 2012 19:00:01 +0000 (UTC)
 er.abhinav.upadhyay%gmail.com@localhost wrote:
 
 > makemandb(8) maintains an index of all the different aliases of the man 
 > pages. This information is maintained in the mandb_links table in the 
 > database. But there is a small bug in there. When old man pages are removed, 
 > the corresponding entry for the aliases of those man pages are not removed 
 > from the mandb_links table. 
 
 Sorry that I didn't yet read the whole implementation, thus this
 question:
 
 I see that a new column is added to the new table, which gets created
 if it doesn't exist.  Is this table deleted and recreated at every
 makemandb run?  Otherwise, some migration code might be needed to alter
 the existing table and add the new column (or to delete the existing
 tables if they're not of the intended version/format)...
 
 Or perhaps this doesn't matter as there was no official release yet
 with the new code, and UPDATING could hold a note with instructions for
 the admins to delete the old db (if that is a problem, that is)?
 
 Thanks,
 -- 
 Matt