Module Name: src Committed By: abhinav Date: Sat Jun 18 06:36:18 UTC 2016
Modified Files: src/usr.sbin/makemandb: makemandb.8 Log Message: Improve wording, and add reference to mandoc(3) Ok from wiz@ To generate a diff of this commit: cvs rdiff -u -r1.9 -r1.10 src/usr.sbin/makemandb/makemandb.8 Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the copyright notices on the relevant files.
Modified files: Index: src/usr.sbin/makemandb/makemandb.8 diff -u src/usr.sbin/makemandb/makemandb.8:1.9 src/usr.sbin/makemandb/makemandb.8:1.10 --- src/usr.sbin/makemandb/makemandb.8:1.9 Sun May 22 05:03:17 2016 +++ src/usr.sbin/makemandb/makemandb.8 Sat Jun 18 06:36:18 2016 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $NetBSD: makemandb.8,v 1.9 2016/05/22 05:03:17 abhinav Exp $ +.\" $NetBSD: makemandb.8,v 1.10 2016/06/18 06:36:18 abhinav Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2011 Abhinav Upadhyay <er.abhinav.upadh...@gmail.com> .\" All rights reserved. @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ .\" OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.Dd March 3, 2015 +.Dd June 18, 2016 .Dt MAKEMANDB 8 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -44,14 +44,14 @@ The .Nm utility traverses the directories containing man pages, parses the manual -pages with the help of libmandoc and builds an Sqlite database +pages with the help of +.Xr mandoc 3 +and builds an Sqlite database to support full text searches by .Xr apropos 1 . It obtains the list of directories to traverse using the -.Fl Ar path -and .Fl p -options of +option of .Xr man 1 . .Pp It supports the following options: @@ -69,9 +69,10 @@ This option can be used to mimic the beh .Xr apropos 1 and also to substantially save disk space. .It Fl o -Use this option to optimize the index for speed and also -to significantly reduce disk space usage. -This is a somewhat expensive operation. +Use this option to optimize the index for faster search by +.Xr apropos 1 +and also to significantly reduce disk space usage. +This is an expensive I/O operation. .It Fl Q Print only fatal error messages (i.e., when the database is left in an inconsistent state and needs manual intervention). @@ -119,6 +120,7 @@ tag. .Xr apropos 1 , .Xr man 1 , .Xr whatis 1 , +.Xr mandoc 3 , .Xr man.conf 5 .Sh AUTHORS .An Abhinav Upadhyay