Re: test -d /usr/man && mail submit@bugs
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 04:17:20PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Chad Miller wrote:
> > dpkg
>
> Looking at the changelog the dpkg manpage were moved to /usr/share/man
> in version 1.4.1.5, released Tue, 13 Jul 1999. I just checked and I
> have dpkg manpage in /usr/share/man on my system.
Ha! That's a bug/unexpected-feature of dpkg. Its errors look a lot like
the output of -S:
cmiller@canard:~$ ls -l /usr/man/man1/editor.1.gz
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Jun 29 2000 /usr/man/man1/editor.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/editor.1.gz (bad symlink)
cmiller@canard:~$ dpkg -S /usr/man/man1/editor.1.gz
dpkg: /usr/man/man1/editor.1.gz not found.
cmiller@canard:~$ dpkg -S /badfilename
dpkg: /badfilename not found.
dpkg is fine.
- chad
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