dead man page links?

Richard L. Hamilton rlhamil at smart.net
Sat Oct 15 21:08:04 UTC 2022


created:
https://trac.macports.org/ticket/65999 fsp 
https://trac.macports.org/ticket/66000 gimp2
https://trac.macports.org/ticket/66001 xxhash


> On Oct 15, 2022, at 5:05 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
> 
> On Oct 1, 2022, at 01:39, Richard L. Hamilton wrote:
>> 
>> Given a bunch of No such file or directory errors from man -k and/or /usr/libexec/makewhatis, I looked a bit, and
>> 
>> /opt/local/share/man/man1/dot2gxl.1 is provided by: graphviz
>> /opt/local/share/man/man1/fcat.1.gz is provided by: fsp
>> /opt/local/share/man/man1/fcd.1.gz is provided by: fsp
>> /opt/local/share/man/man1/fdu.1.gz is provided by: fsp
>> /opt/local/share/man/man1/ffind.1.gz is provided by: fsp
>> /opt/local/share/man/man1/fget.1.gz is provided by: fsp
>> /opt/local/share/man/man1/fgrab.1.gz is provided by: fsp
>> /opt/local/share/man/man1/fhost.1.gz is provided by: fsp
>> /opt/local/share/man/man1/fls.1.gz is provided by: fsp
>> /opt/local/share/man/man1/fmv.1.gz is provided by: fsp
>> /opt/local/share/man/man1/fpro.1.gz is provided by: fsp
>> /opt/local/share/man/man1/frm.1.gz is provided by: fsp
>> /opt/local/share/man/man1/frmdir.1.gz is provided by: fsp
>> /opt/local/share/man/man1/fsetup.1.gz is provided by: fsp
>> /opt/local/share/man/man1/fstat.1.gz is provided by: fsp
>> /opt/local/share/man/man1/gimp-console.1 is provided by: gimp2
>> /opt/local/share/man/man1/xxh128sum.1 is provided by: xxhash
>> /opt/local/share/man/man1/xxh32sum.1 is provided by: xxhash
>> /opt/local/share/man/man1/xxh64sum.1 is provided by: xxhash
>> 
>> all turn out to be symlinks to nonexistent files. What’s up with that? I certainly didn’t remove man pages manually.
> 
> Please file a separate bug report for each individual affected port, for which a bug report does not already exist, so that each issue can be investigated and fixed separately.
> 
> The bug report about graphviz for example is https://trac.macports.org/ticket/61288 so you don't need to file that one. I haven't checked if the others have bug reports already.
> 
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