confused about man pages on -current

Rinndalir · 10-22-2015, 08:54 PM

To all, as ppr:kut mentioned cdrtools-3.01 did include fprintf.

But now I wonder, since the topic of man pages is here, where is upstream for man-1.6g????

Where is the repo? The sites listed no longer exist.

Does slackware need to upgrade to man-db?

And also how did fprintf man page end up in the cdrtools package?

Rinndalir · 10-22-2015, 08:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stoa

Code:

grep  man3/fprintf /var/log/packages/*
/var/log/packages/man-pages-3.82-noarch-1:usr/man/man3/fprintf.3.gz

Try this instead:

Code:

grep  man3/fprintf /var/log/*packages/*

stoa · 10-22-2015, 08:58 PM

Rinndalir:

Here you are:

Code:

 grep  man3/fprintf /var/log/*packages/*
/var/log/packages/man-pages-3.82-noarch-1:usr/man/man3/fprintf.3.gz
/var/log/removed_packages/cdrtools-3.01-x86_64-1-upgraded-2015-10-07,16:12:51:usr/man/man3/fprintf.3.gz
/var/log/removed_packages/man-pages-3.53-noarch-1-upgraded-2015-08-17,18:11:06:usr/man/man3/fprintf.3.gz

Rinndalir · 10-22-2015, 09:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stoa

Code:

 
/var/log/removed_packages/cdrtools-3.01-x86_64-1-upgraded-2015-10-07,16:12:51:usr/man/man3/fprintf.3.gz

Yes, that's the one.

ill323 · 10-23-2015, 02:47 AM

Same thing here.

Just reinstalled man-pages-3.82-noarch-1.txz to fix it.

# grep man3/printf /var/log/removed_packages/*
/var/log/removed_packages/cdrtools-3.01-x86_64-1-upgraded-2015-10-07,12:38:43:usr/man/man3/printf.3.gz
/var/log/removed_packages/man-pages-3.53-noarch-1-upgraded-2014-06-26,09:37:06:usr/man/man3/printf.3.gz
/var/log/removed_packages/man-pages-3.69-noarch-1-upgraded-2015-05-01,09:24:24:usr/man/man3/printf.3.gz
/var/log/removed_packages/man-pages-3.82-noarch-1-upgraded-2015-10-23,15:41:55:usr/man/man3/printf.3.gz

Didier Spaier · 10-23-2015, 04:38 AM

OK, I think that I understand what happened. Quoted lines from http://www.slackware.com/changelog/c...hp?cpu=x86_64:

Quote:

+--------------------------+
<snip>
ap/cdrtools-3.01-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Removed useless man pages in /usr/man/man3. Thanks to Adrien Nader.
<snip>
+--------------------------+
Wed Sep 23 01:10:36 UTC 2015
<snip>
ap/cdrtools-3.01-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
<snip>
+--------------------------+
Tue Apr 21 23:44:00 UTC 2015
<snip>
]ap/man-pages-3.82-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
<snip>

The first update of cdrtools replaced the recent man pages with older ones.
The second update of cdrtools didn't remove these old pages as files bearing the same names were found in man-pages (and the package tools don't know which are the most recent ones).

Maybe all that is just a side effect of Joerg Schilling being the author of both cdrtools and the old man pages

If the OP agrees, maybe he can mark this thread as [SOLVED]

PS a "centralized" fix could be to just provide a (fake) rebuild of man-pages. But maybe that's not worth it especially for -current and it's enough to wait for the next upgrade.

PPS I realize now that Heinz already gave the explanation in post #5. Oh, well...