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Bug 83876

Summary: Collision: Multiple ebuilds (such as ghostscript and acct) merge /usr/share/man/man1/ansi2knr.1.gz
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Mike Nerone <mike>
Component: New packagesAssignee: Printing Team <printing>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal    
Priority: High    
Version: 2004.3   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Description Mike Nerone 2005-03-02 13:25:43 UTC
Multiple ebuilds merge /usr/share/man/man1/ansi2knr.1.gz. The ones I've noticed are app-text/ghostscript and sys-apps/acct, but I'd imagine there are others that use this tool so may have the same problem.

This causes file collisions, and is simply the wrong thing to do anyway. ansi2knr (even if it were used, which I don't think it is with gcc) is only a compile utility. It is not relevant to the packages, and should not be merged at all.
Comment 1 Mike Nerone 2005-03-02 13:28:09 UTC
What I meant is that the man page should not be merged. The tool itself is not merged, which is an additional reason the man page shouldn't be, either. ;)
Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2005-03-03 15:35:43 UTC
acct just installed it by accident because it globbed for all manpages (*.[18])

removed it in the ebuild so acct no longer installs the manpage since it doesnt install the ansi2knr binary too

thanks for the report !
Comment 3 Mike Nerone 2005-03-03 21:39:36 UTC
Thanks much, vapier! I hope it's ok if I reopen and reassign to printing so the Ghostscript side can be fixed, cuz that's what I'm doing. :P
Comment 4 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-03-04 03:33:53 UTC
fixed.
Comment 5 Mike Nerone 2005-03-04 12:24:14 UTC
Just merged app-text/ghostscript-7.07.1-r8 (latest I see in the tree)... ansi2knr.1.gz remains. My sync was over eight hours after comment #4. It should have propogated by now, right?

Leaving this closed for the moment in case I'm mistaken. I'll check on it again later.
Comment 6 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-03-04 12:33:27 UTC
sorry, there was a bug in it (tried to delete the gzipped versions, but they are only created after src_install), please try again
Comment 7 Mike Nerone 2005-03-04 15:05:25 UTC
Confirmed fixed now. Thank ye!