[SOLVED] removepkg left the manuals behind.

stf92 · 05-17-2009, 07:17 AM

Hi there:
I ran 'removepkg foo.tgz' and he didn't remove the manuals. How can this be? Thanks for reading.

samac · 05-17-2009, 09:58 AM

Which package did you remove?

samac

gnashley · 05-17-2009, 11:26 AM

The question is how was the package created. I'd bet that it was made using checkinstall?? It has a notorious behaviour in that regard. Either that or you have run manually compiled the sources and run 'make install' before creating a package using some other method. Another clue -the man-pages are not compressed, right?

stf92 · 05-17-2009, 11:18 PM

tHE package is sox-12.18.1-i486-1.tgz from distro 12.0. I made
# updatedb
# slocate sox
and among the output I get
/var/man/cat1/sox.1.bz2
/var/man/cat1/soxexam.1.bz2
/var/man/cat1/soxmix.1.bz2

I also see obtain
/home/semoi/audio-uninst/sox/sox-12.18.1-i486-1.tgz-contents/usr/man/man1/sox.1.gz
/home/semoi/audio-uninst/sox/sox-12.18.1-i486-1.tgz-contents/usr/man/man1/play.1.gz
/home/semoi/audio-uninst/sox/sox-12.18.1-i486-1.tgz-contents/usr/man/man1/soxexam.1.gz
But these should be transparent to the system. Thanks.

samac · 05-18-2009, 03:03 AM

As I'm not running 12.0 I cannot confirm this, however this is not repeated in Slackware 12.2, perhaps it is just a problem with this version of Slackware / Sox. If it is not repeated for other programs within Slackware 12.0 then it should not be a problem.

samac

stf92 · 05-18-2009, 05:24 AM

samac:
the last three paths were created by me using
explodepkg just to see what the contents of the package is. So do as if the last three don't exist. It cannot be the source of trouble. Thanks for your answer.

gnashley · 05-18-2009, 06:24 AM

Usually, man-pages which are found in cat* directories are cached versions which get created when you use man to view the page. You can 'disable' the creation of cached copies by removing the dirs /var/man/cat*.
I have seen one program, though, where the sources would install man-pages in /var/man/cat.
You can cross-check the contents of the sox package by looking at the database file for it under /var/log/removed_packages.

stf92 · 05-20-2009, 04:52 PM

samac: Sorry. I didn't got you. I've now reread your post and see what it means. Thank you.

stf92 · 05-20-2009, 05:17 PM

Thanks gnashley. I now see. If they're cached, then it's a thing done by the system and not by the installer, and the uninstaller knows nothing of it. Furthermore, an installer would'nt install files in /var. Thanks very much.