On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Johann Spies wrote: > On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 04:31:53PM -0700, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Johann Spies wrote: > > > > > After installing a few potato packages the manpages of some of them are > > > not available although they are there. > > > > I hope that you didn't mind my "me too" post the other day. Some people > > get upset. > > Not at all. > > > > > I didn't see any replies. Did you? > > No replies. Maybe nobody knows the answer. I suspect it is the > combination of slink/potato that is causing the problem. > > If I remember correctly you said that you also installed potato's > manpages package? And that did not sort out the problem? > > Anyhow it is not so serious that I will spend a lot of time on it. As > soon as potato comes out officially, I will order my cd's and do a > dist-upgrade.
No, I think it's worse than that. >From a pure slink system, I did a dist-upgrade and got the same problem that you have. Sine then, I've been doing a dist-upgrade almost daily to pick up the few packages that are being updated daily. man-db was updated a couple of days ago but the problem is still there. So, I really think that the problem you descibed is indeed a potato bug. ...RickM...
