Summary: | bind puts man pages in wrong place | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Paul Thompson <set.mailinglist> |
Component: | New packages | Assignee: | Donny Davies (RETIRED) <woodchip> |
Status: | RESOLVED INVALID | ||
Severity: | normal | ||
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | 1.2 | ||
Hardware: | x86 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Whiteboard: | |||
Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
Attachments: | patch for bind-9.2.1-r2.ebuild |
Description
Paul Thompson
2002-08-15 15:05:47 UTC
Created attachment 3111 [details, diff]
patch for bind-9.2.1-r2.ebuild
Thanks a log. But ... Ximian root # ls -l /usr/man lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Aug 10 10:48 /usr/man -> share/man Try again :) why nslookup.8 was included in ${FILESDIR} ? <snip> +<j2ee> mmh, nobody knows why nslookup.8 was included in ${FILESDIR} ? (bind-tools ebuild) @<woodchip> j2ee: because the silly ISC people dont distribute a manpage for nslookup.8 -- ! @<woodchip> j2ee: i think they're still trying to eradicate nslookup from the face of the planet -- hence they dont distribute a manpage for it anymore. @<woodchip> j2ee: the point is nslookup is deprecated. </snip> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/gentoo-howto.html clearly states that man pages go in /usr/share/man. Perhaps this is an indication that /usr/man is deprecated and may go away? I dont know. It definitely seems to be the convention of all the other ebuilds. I know /usr/man is supposed to be a link. Now, this may be a strange situation, but this actually affected me because I installed gentoo over an existing distribution of another type, and /usr/man existed as a separate dir, and remained so after the install. Other people do this too. Further more, the actual directory something is installed on is highly signifigant when querrying the database. qpkg -f /usr/share/man/man1/foo.1.gz is not equivilant to qpkg -f /usr/man/man1/foo.1.gz as far as nslookup goes, either it should have a man page, or or should be not installed. (I have no problem with the later, as the version distributed is broken, crippled and crap.) If you think it shouldnt have a man page, maybe you can convince whoever wrote bind-tools. |