Victor Duchovni wrote:
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 12:43:38PM -0400, Randy Ramsdell wrote:
Victor Duchovni wrote:
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 11:49:00AM -0400, Randy Ramsdell wrote:
Okay every single man page, and there are MANY, is also causing an error.
This are all related to opensuse's postfix-docs rpm which does not create
sym links to the gzipped page.
If they change the names of the installed files, they MUST change the
contents of the "postfix-files" included with the package. Failure to
do so is a broken package, complain loudly to the package maintainers.
Correction: The man pages are from the postfix rpm.
They did not change the man page names. It is common to use $manpage.1.gz.
Yes, but if they ship manpage.gz files, then the "postfix-files" file
MUST list those and not files they don't ship. If you change the list
of delivered files, change the package manifest. It does not get much
easier...
What is the "postfix-files" that list say postmap.1 vs. postmap.1.gz?
Are you conveying that the postfix set-permissions uses some file that
lists what man pages to look for?
They simply compress the man page. I had to create links like postmap.1
---> postmap.1.gz. Every manpage for every piece of software is in the for
$manpage.1.gz. Agreed that the package maintainer could have created these
links.
Or updated "postfix-files", if the links are not needed for the "man"
command to work.
Of course the link is not needed.
Your binary package is borked, don't use it.
Given it is an Opensuse problem, I still don't see why the postfix
set-permissions cannot, use postmap.1* vs postmap.1 .
That would be wrong. The manifest is supposed to be correct. Changing
the permissions of some random file is a really bad idea.
What manifest are you referring to? Is this an official file that I
should look into or something you reference simply as a reference? I
agree that the exact name is preferable, but postmap.1 vs. postmap.1.gz
? In fact every manpage on this server is of the form
$manpage.$number.gz and strace shows "man" loading zlib libraries. So it
is a builtin.
