Subject: pkg/6154: some pkg's do dodgy manual page installation
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: None <mason@primenet.com.au>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 09/14/1998 04:19:35
>Number: 6154
>Category: pkg
>Synopsis: must run some pkg man pages through tbl
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: low
>Responsible: gnats-admin (GNATS administrator)
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Sun Sep 13 21:35:00 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Geoff C. Wing
>Organization:
Geoff Wing <gcw@pobox.com> Mobile : 0412 162 441
Work URL: http://www.primenet.com.au/ Ego URL: http://pobox.com/~gcw/
>Release: 19980913
>Environment:
System: NetBSD coral.primenet.com.au 1.3H NetBSD 1.3H (CORAL) #3: Wed Sep 2 00:39:19 EST 1998 mason@coral.primenet.com.au:/staff/netbsd/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/CORAL i386
>Description:
Certain man pages for some packages need to be parsed through tbl.
Offending packages (and pages) I know of (i.e. from pkg's I've
installed):
ncurses-1.9.9g : .../man1/captoinfo.1
: .../man1/infocmp.1
: .../man3/cur_addch.3
: .../man3/cur_mouse.3
: .../man5/terminfo.5
ghostscript-5.10 : .../man1/gs.1
zoo-2.10.1 : .../man1/zoo.1
ucd-snmp-3.4 : .../man3/mib_api.3
>How-To-Repeat:
I'd say RTFM but ... :-)
How to find more?
% egrep -l "^[.]TS" /usr/pkg/man/man?/*
might be a good start.
>Fix:
There are two obvious ways:
1) save tbl'd and nroff'd pages (i.e. cat/ pages) and PLIST it (or
whatever happens)
2) save tbl'd but not nroff'd pages (i.e. hacked up man/ pages)
I would say option 1 is much better than option 2.
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: