Re: update-alternatives: bug or misunderstanding?

["Eric G . Miller" <egm2@jps.net>]

On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 11:21:25AM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> However, that's not how it seems to work on potato.  I noticed that
> after the installation I got /etc/alternatives/awk pointing to
> /usr/bin/mawk and /etc/alternatives/awk.1.gz pointing to
> /usr/man/man1/mawk.1.gz.  Since I prefer gawk, I did (as root)
> 
> update-alternatives --config /usr/bin/awk awk /usr/bin/gawk

You left out the slave link for the man pages, hence they weren't
updated.  Reread that alternatives man page (yes, it's confusing).

I think: update-alternatives --config /usr/bin/awk awk /usr/bin/gawk \
	/usr/share/man/man1/gawk.1.gz

> That in fact changed the /etc/alternatives/awk link to point to gawk,
> but it left the manpage link pointing to mawk.1!  The same thing
> happened again when I wanted to change the etags alternative (to point
> to the Exuberant version).
> 
> I ended up changing the manpage links by hand.  Is that safe or will
> it confuse the system even more?
> 
> -- 
> Ian Zimmerman
> Lightbinders, Inc.
> 2325 3rd Street #324, San Francisco, California 94107
> 
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