Re: Manual pages
Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> writes:
> On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 11:34:23PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> >Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> wrote:
> [...]
> >>This has changed in -21, the module extension is now ".3perl" as man-db
> >>was choosing open(3) over open(2).
> >
> >This won't help the "competing extensions" problem, of course ... I
> >suspect such warnings are unavoidable when core and vendor man pages are
> >installed simultaneously.
>
> Not in the case of core+vendor (which I agree is unavoidable), but in
> this specific case I was suggesting he install updated modules in
> /usr/local. I would guess that warning is not issued when the pages are
> in different directories (but I could be wrong).
The modules is intelled in /usr/local/lib/perl/5.6.0 or
/usr/local/share/perl/5.6.0 and the manuals in /usr/local/man.
But somehow, there is multipple installations in the same dir. Could
it be that earlier versions of the modules manpages wasn't gzipped,
and that the upgrade didn't remove the old versions?
Or does some CPAN modules install themself in the wrong place?
I will keep my eyes open...
Another error from mandb is that "whatis failed":
Updating index cache for path `/usr/share/man'. Wait...mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/HTML::Filter.3pm.gz: whatis parse for HTML::Filter(3pm) failed
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/HTML::HeadParser.3pm.gz: whatis parse for HTML::HeadParser(3pm) failed
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/HTML::LinkExtor.3pm.gz: whatis parse for HTML::LinkExtor(3pm) failed
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/HTML::TokeParser.3pm.gz: whatis parse for HTML::TokeParser(3pm) failed
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/HTML::Parser.3pm.gz: whatis parse for HTML::Parser(3pm) failed
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/HTML::Entities.3pm.gz: whatis parse for HTML::Entities(3pm) failed
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/XML::DOM-ecmascript.3pm.gz: whatis parse for XML::DOM-ecmascript(3pm) failed
All these modules could have come from a "install Bundle::CPAN".
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/ Jonas - http://jonas.liljegren.org/myself/en/index.html
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