Le mercredi 04 janvier 2017 à 21:12 +0000, Wolfgang Mueller a écrit :
> is definitely not set when executing cron scripts like that. I
> deleted all mandoc.db files and waited for them to be regenerated.
> Only
> the one in /usr/share/man was generated, which means that makewhatis
> fell back to the defaults since MANPATH was empty.
> 
> Just as I am composing this mail, the cron script that had `source
> /etc/profile' in it before makewhatis ran, and all the databases are
> there.
> 
> Bottom line: MANPATH is not available in cron scripts.

Could you open a bug report on https://bugzilla.gentoo.org/, I think
this could be a very long standing bug.

-- 
Gilles Dartiguelongue <e...@gentoo.org>

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