man-db: make apropos search and not just behave like whatis
Before this fix, apropos behaved exactly like whatis and looked for
an exact match. Now, it actually provides the apropos-functionality
of searching.
commitea14a143572cc98f54ffa2a31510a2ce52f102ac
authorBenno Fünfstück <benno.fuenfstueck@gmail.com>
dateFri 30 Dec 2016, 16:54 (10 years ago)
parent087c244
pkgs/tools/misc/man-db/default.nix+5−2
@@ -29,8 +29,11 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
2929 ];
3030
3131 postInstall = ''
32− for i in "$out/bin/"*; do
33− wrapProgram "$i" --prefix PATH : "${groff}/bin"
32+ # apropos/whatis uses program name to decide whether to act like apropos or whatis
33+ # (multi-call binary). `apropos` is actually just a symlink to whatis. So we need to
34+ # make sure that we don't wrap symlinks (since that changes argv[0] to the -wrapped name)
35+ find "$out/bin" -type f | while read file; do
36+ wrapProgram "$file" --prefix PATH : "${groff}/bin"
3437 done
3538 '';
3639