when i call "man 3 curs_beep" i get garbage output. same when call "man 3 flash" i get: gunzip: /usr/share/man/man3/flash.3x.gz: not in gzip format fgets: No such file or directory Error reading man page /usr/share/man/man3/flash.3x.gz No entry for flash in section 3 of the manual i personally think it has to to with the bz2 compression in newer portage versions ls -la /usr/share/man/man3/flash.3x.gz shows me: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Jan 16 17:45 /usr/share/man/man3/flash.3x.gz -> curs_beep.3x.gz.bz2 so i think the file is double compressed, which can't be handled by the man command Portage 2.1.2 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r0, 2.6.19-gentoo-r4-2006.0 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.19-gentoo-r4-2006.0 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) Gentoo Base System version 1.12.8 Timestamp of tree: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 17:00:01 +0000 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.31-r3 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.19.2-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -ftree-vectorize" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /opt/openjms/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -ftree-vectorize" DISTDIR="/usr/local/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps=y" FEATURES="autoconfig collision-protect distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict userpriv" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="C" LC_ALL="C" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--sort-common" LINGUAS="de en" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="7zip ... zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ens1371" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LINGUAS="de en" LIRC_DEVICES="serial" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="r128 vesa" Unset: CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS Reproducible: Always
packages should not compress files themselves ... that is left up to portage ive fixed that in cvs, but there looks like there's also a bug in the portage code
i'll split the issue
