Re: man errors
"Scott K. Ellis" <storm@gate.net> writes:
> Actually, it is because the undocumented.7 manpage was compressed in the
> latest release of it's package (as mandated by policy) and broke the
> symlinks of everything referring to it. This is a bug against each
> package now refering to undocumented.7 instead of undocumented.7.gz, and
> should be reported as such. I believe both the compressed and
> uncompressed manpage will be included in the package that actually becomes
> stable since this is a cosmetic difference. I solved the problem for
> myself by running "symlinks -rd ." in the /usr/man directory (symlinks is
> in the symlinks package, the command simply removes all the broken
> links), that will shut man back up again at the expense of losing those
> links.
Isn't gunziping of undocumented.7.gz, without deleting gziped page, a
better solution? That way you will not break package consistency.
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