Subject: bin/8903: Linked manual pages dose not installed correctly with UPDATE=yes.
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: Takahiro Kambe <taca@sky.yamashina.kyoto.jp>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 11/28/1999 07:45:48
>Number:         8903
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       Linked manual pages dose not installed correctly with UPDATE=yes.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    bin-bug-people (Utility Bug People)
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Nov 28 07:45:00 1999
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Takahiro Kambe
>Organization:
	
>Release:        NetBSD-current 1999/11/26
>Environment:
	
System: NetBSD land.sky.yamashina.kyoto.jp 1.4P NetBSD 1.4P (LAND) #136: Wed Nov 24 11:53:06 JST 1999 taca@land.sky.yamashina.kyoto.jp:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/LAND i386


>Description:
	Linked manual pages dose not installed correctly with UPDATE=yes in
	/etc/mk.conf.
>How-To-Repeat:
	Add UPDATE=yes in /etc/mk.conf, and install some manual pages which
	have links by MLINKS in a Makefile.
>Fix:
	Apply the patch bellow.  It is not harmfull re-link linked manual
	pages.

--- share/man/bsd.man.mk.~1~	Fri Sep 17 02:18:18 1999
+++ share/man/bsd.man.mk	Mon Nov 29 00:34:22 1999
@@ -119,10 +119,7 @@
 		shift; \
 		dir=${DESTDIR}${MANDIR}/cat$${name##*.}; \
 		t=$${dir}${MANSUBDIR}/$${name%.*}.0${MCOMPRESSSUFFIX}; \
-		if [ -z "${UPDATE}" -o ! -f $$t ]; then \
-		    echo $$t -\> $$l; \
-		    ln -f $$l $$t; \
-		fi; \
+		echo $$t -\> $$l; ln -f $$l $$t; \
 	done
 .endif
 .else
@@ -141,9 +138,7 @@
 		shift; \
 		dir=${DESTDIR}${MANDIR}/man$${name##*.}; \
 		t=$${dir}${MANSUBDIR}/$${name}${MCOMPRESSSUFFIX}; \
-		if [ -z "${UPDATE}" -o ! -f $$t ]; then \
-		    echo $$t -\> $$l; \
-		    ln -f $$l $$t; \
+		echo $$t -\> $$l; ln -f $$l $$t; \
 		fi; \
 	done
 .endif

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