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Bug 166281 - bash-3.2_p9-r1 invalid symlink for bashref.info.gz
Summary: bash-3.2_p9-r1 invalid symlink for bashref.info.gz
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 162451
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo's Team for Core System packages
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Reported: 2007-02-11 00:08 UTC by Tim Boundy
Modified: 2007-02-11 04:51 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Description Tim Boundy 2007-02-11 00:08:25 UTC
Whenever an emerge completed, i got an error saying
  * Processed 128 info files; 1 errors.
 install-info: No such file or directory for /usr/share/info/bashref.info.gz
On closer inspection, there is a file /usr/share/info/bashref.info.gz but it is a symlink to bash.info.gz.bz2. This file does not exist, however bash.info.bz2 does.

silverstone info # equery files bash
[ Searching for packages matching bash... ]
* Contents of app-shells/bash-3.2_p9-r1:
/bin
/bin/bash
/bin/rbash -> bash
/bin/sh -> bash
/etc
/etc/bash
/etc/bash/bash_logout
/etc/bash/bashrc
/etc/skel
/etc/skel/.bash_logout
/etc/skel/.bash_profile
/etc/skel/.bashrc
/usr
/usr/bin
/usr/bin/bashbug
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/bash-3.2_p9-r1
/usr/share/doc/bash-3.2_p9-r1/AUTHORS.bz2
/usr/share/doc/bash-3.2_p9-r1/CHANGES.bz2
/usr/share/doc/bash-3.2_p9-r1/COMPAT.bz2
/usr/share/doc/bash-3.2_p9-r1/FAQ.bz2
/usr/share/doc/bash-3.2_p9-r1/INTRO.bz2
/usr/share/doc/bash-3.2_p9-r1/NEWS.bz2
/usr/share/doc/bash-3.2_p9-r1/README.bz2
/usr/share/doc/bash-3.2_p9-r1/Y2K.bz2
/usr/share/info
/usr/share/info/bash.info.bz2
/usr/share/info/bashref.info.gz -> bash.info.gz.bz2
/usr/share/man
/usr/share/man/man1
/usr/share/man/man1/bash.1.bz2
/usr/share/man/man1/bashbug.1.bz2
/usr/share/man/man1/builtins.1.bz2
/usr/share/man/man1/rbash.1.bz2

silverstone info # emerge --info
Portage 2.1.2-r9 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r0, 2.6.20-gentoo i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.20-gentoo i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU          6300  @ 1.86GHz
Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9
Timestamp of tree: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 23:50:01 +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:  2.6.20
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium-m -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -msse3"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /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"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium-m -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -msse3"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LC_ALL="en_US.utf8"
LINGUAS="en"
MAKEOPTS="-j4"
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://giga.serveftp.com/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac acl acpi aiglx alsa arts asf audiofile bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo calendar cdr cli cracklib crypt dbus dlloader dri dvd dvdr dvdread emboss encode esd fam ffmpeg firefox flac foomaticdb fortran ftp gdbm gif gpm gtk hal iconv idn imagemagick imap imlib ip1000 iproute2 ipv6 isdnlog jabber java javascript jpeg kde kdeenablefinal kdexdeltas kerberos lcd libg++ libwww mad midi mikmod mime mmx mmxext mng mono mozbranding mozilla mozsvg mp3 mpeg mplayer msn ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia offensive ogg ogvorbis opengl oss pam pcre pdf perl png posix ppds pppd python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime rdesktop readline reflection samba sdl sensord servicetools session spell spl sse sse2 ssl svg tcpd theora threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb vorbis win32codecs wxwindows x86 xine xinerama xml xml2 xorg xosd xpm xscreensaver xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="snd-hda-intel" 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" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en" LIRC_DEVICES="streamzap" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="vesa nvidia"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Emerge bash-3.2_p9-r1
2. ls -l /usr/share/info/bashref.info.gz
3.

Actual Results:  
Symlink points to bash.info.gz.bz2

Expected Results:  
Symlink should point to bash.info.bz2
Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2007-02-11 04:51:25 UTC
re-emerge bash

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 162451 ***