Shreedhar Hegde

Hi @deepyogurt! That’s unfortunate… I have a guess as to why, though... From the makewhatis man-page, [...] If no directories are specified, the contents of the MANPATH environment variable will be used, or if that is not set, the default directory /usr/share/man will be processed. So maybe $MANPATH wasn‘t set when you ran it? Btw, I’d like to add that — at least as on Big Sur — macOS seems to automatically maintain its whatis databases. Tested this by creating my own pseudo man-page and placing...

Flat-package (installer) version : 1.0.7 macOS version : 11.3.1 The Problem The man-pages are unpacked to /usr/local/man/man8. Perhaps this was meant to be /usr/local/share/man/man8 instead? Output of pkgutil --payload-files . ./usr ./usr/local ./usr/local/man ./usr/local/man/man8 ./usr/local/man/man8/cgdisk.8 ./usr/local/man/man8/sgdisk.8 ./usr/local/man/man8/gdisk.8 ./usr/local/bin ./usr/local/bin/gdisk ./usr/local/bin/cgdisk ./usr/local/bin/sgdisk ./usr/local/bin/uninstall-gdisk ./usr/local/doc...

Flat-package (installer) version: 1.0.7 macOS version: 11.3.1 The Problem The man-pages are unpacked to /usr/local/man/man8. Perhaps this was meant to be /usr/local/share/man/man8 instead? Output of pkgutil --payload-files . ./usr ./usr/local ./usr/local/man ./usr/local/man/man8 ./usr/local/man/man8/cgdisk.8 ./usr/local/man/man8/sgdisk.8 ./usr/local/man/man8/gdisk.8 ./usr/local/bin ./usr/local/bin/gdisk ./usr/local/bin/cgdisk ./usr/local/bin/sgdisk ./usr/local/bin/uninstall-gdisk ./usr/local/doc...