Re: bin/47701: apropos doesn't work

[Jukka Ruohonen <jruohonen%iki.fi@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/47701; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jukka Ruohonen <jruohonen%iki.fi@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/47701: apropos doesn't work
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 06:58:26 +0200

 On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 03:35:01AM +0000, root%garbled.net@localhost wrote:
 > The new apropos in 6, doesn't seem to give reasonable results.
 
 I beg to disagree. What would the old appropos find for DTV USB devices?
 Many pages of garbage, whereas:
 
 apropos "USB DTV" 
 dtviic (4)      Inter IC (I2C) modules for DTV
 ...support for dtv(4) devices. The dtviic au8522 cx24227 lg3303 mt2131 nxt2k
 zl10353 tvpll xc3028 xc5k module group includes tuners, demodulators, and
 analog video decoders. The usual hardware structure consists of a host
 controller (connected for instance via usb(4...
 
 emdtv (4)       digital video driver for Empia Technology EM28xx based cards
 ...in USB products. Supported cards include: Device Demodulator Tuner ATI TV
 Wonder 600 USB lg3303(4) xc3028(4) (XC3028L) The XC3028L digital tuner
 requires firmware. This is provided by the pkgsrc/sysutils/xc3028l-firmware
 package. dtv(4) , dtviic(4) , usb...
 
 auvitek (4)     Auvitek AU0828 video capture device driver
 ...USB video capture devices based on the Auvitek AU0828 bridge. This hybrid
 analog/digital device requires a hi-speed
 USB...pkgsrc/sysutils/xc5k-firmware package to function properly. audio(4) ,
 dtv(4) , dtviic(4) , ehci(4) , uaudio(4) , video(4...
 
 MAKEDEV (8)     create system and device special files
 ...4) USB devices : usb# USB control devices, see usb(4) uhid# USB generic
 HID devices, see uhid(4) ulpt# USB...Direct Rendering Manager interface, see
 drm(4)v# Digital TV interface, see dtv(4) fb# PMAX generic framebuffer
 pseudo-device...
 
 - Jukka.