From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GE5DX-0000X9-8O for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 14:20:59 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k7IEIpST014524; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 14:18:51 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7IEGaV4030200 for ; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 14:16:36 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C8206487A for ; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 14:16:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 06544-20-2 for ; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 14:16:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62BEC64859 for ; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 14:16:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GE57m-0001a6-4S for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 16:15:02 +0200 Received: from p50895d63.dip.t-dialin.net ([80.137.93.99]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 16:15:02 +0200 Received: from costa by p50895d63.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 16:15:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Marco Costa Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Cleaning up multiple man pages (how?) Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 15:57:41 +0200 Message-ID: References: <9acccfe50608171843v32e4abc3s218fcfcec5ae1344@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p50895d63.dip.t-dialin.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060719) In-Reply-To: <9acccfe50608171843v32e4abc3s218fcfcec5ae1344@mail.gmail.com> Sender: news X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.589 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.010, BAYES_00=-2.599] X-Spam-Score: -2.589 X-Spam-Level: X-Archives-Salt: abb36403-7e1e-4d16-b993-6c63f78a4535 X-Archives-Hash: 93b88e26a6d9ef7c3338851ee436fdd6 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I've noticed that the whereis(1) command gives multiple results for > some queries. For instance, "whereis lilo" gives me > > kevin@treat ~ $ whatis lilo > lilo (8) - install boot loader > lilo.conf [lilo] (5) - configuration file for lilo > lilo (8) - install boot loader > lilo.conf [lilo] (5) - configuration file for lilo > lilo (8) - install boot loader > lilo.conf [lilo] (5) - configuration file for lilo > kevin@treat ~ $ > > I surmise from this that there are multiple copies of the man pages > in various historical hiding places. However, I can't get whereis > or anything else to tell me where it found them. Is there some > neat way to find the locations? I'd like to figure out which ones > correspond to my actual software and to ditch the others. > Remove /var/cache/man (I don't have it anymore, so I am not really sure that this is the name) but it is the cause of the multiple entries. Note that you will still have double entries for some pages, as they are POSIX and linux variants. Regards, Marco -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list