PKG_CHECK-MANPAGES(1)

🦋 pkg_check-manpages(1) 🦋

okay so bestie, this little icon lives in the General Commands Manual, and it’s here to help you check manpage subjects in packages. very demure, very mindful, very makewhatis(8)-core 💅

✨ NAME ✨

pkg_check-manpages — verify manpage subjects in packages 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

pkg_check-manpages [-p] [pkgname ...]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so pkg_check-manpages is used to check manpages in a collection of packages. it will extract all manpages from the pkgname arguments into a directory named manpages.XXXXXXXXXXXX (see mktemp(1)) and run them through makewhatis(8). literally the whole pipeline, no cap ✨

note that this directory is not cleared on exit, so that the problematic manpages can be examined more precisely. yes bestie, it leaves the evidence behind on purpose 🔍💖

if no pkgname argument is passed, it will process all *.tgz files in the current directory. main character energy: it just looks around and handles everything in sight 🌈

💅 OPTIONS 💅

options are as follows:

• -p — run makewhatis(8) in picky mode. highkey extra, but sometimes you need that energy 😤

errors reported in picky mode should usually be fixed, because it means the subject line stored in the whatis database will be useless to find out the corresponding manpage. like, the vibe check failed and now nobody can find the right page 😭

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okay that’s the whole thing — this cutie comes from Debian, dated July 10, 2018 🫶✨