Package: dlocate
Version: 0.5-0.2
Severity: normal
For some reason my last post to:
dlocate: duplicated -man entries
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=152207
...hasn't gotten the bug reopened or fixed, and I can't
reopen it, so rather than let something useful sink into
e-oblivion, here's an abridged copy n' paste:
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...there seems to be an assumption that full pathnames are incompatible
with 'man'. That's not obvious though; on my system this works:
% man /usr/share/man/man1/bash.1.gz
...and even this works:
% man `dlocate -L bash | grep ".*/man.*.gz" | sort`
...these aren't unique lines:
% dlocate -man aptitude
8 aptitude
8 aptitude
8 aptitude.fr
8 aptitude
8 aptitude.fi
8 aptitude
8 aptitude
8 aptitude
8 aptitude
8 aptitude
# how many dups was it?
% dlocate -man aptitude | sort | uniq -cd
8 8 aptitude # 8 dups
Worse, if I try this:
% man `dlocate -man aptitude`
...and keep hitting 'q' & <Enter>, the same man page shows up 8 times.
There are no repeats with this:
% man `dlocate -L aptitude | grep ".*/man.*.gz" | sort`
So for that example at least, full pathnames are better.
NB: my one-liner's not perfect. Packages with many symlinks to
man pages would cause repeats even with that code. Maybe the worst
possible example:
# how many symlinked man pages in 'manpages-dev'?
% for f in `dlocate -L manpages-dev | grep ".*/man.*.gz"`; do file $f |
grep symbolic ; done | wc -l
881 # <<-- that many
I-yi-yi! So the ideal would be a '-man' option that eliminated
symlinks, or could if desired. Displaying only the local
language pages would be convenient too.
Hope this helps...
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Versions of packages dlocate depends on:
ii dpkg 1.13.17 package maintenance system for Deb
ii grep-dctrl 2.9.0 Grep Debian package information -
ii perl 5.8.8-4 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
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