Re: Latest "perl" package installs stray symbolic links

["OBATA Akio" <obache%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Sun, 04 Mar 2012 16:06:18 +0900, Matthias Scheler 
<tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost> wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 10:49:00PM +0900, OBATA Akio wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 22:34:34 +0900, Matthias Scheler 
> > <tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost> wrote:
> >
> > >the latest version of the "perl" package in "pkgsrc" HEAD installs
> > >stray symbolic links:
> > >
> > >tron@lyssa:~>ls -l /usr/pkg/man/man1/perlmacosx.1
> > >lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  37 Feb 25 13:30 /usr/pkg/man/man1/perlmacosx.1 -> 
> > ../../lib/perl5/man/man1/perlmacosx.1
> > >tron@lyssa:~>pkg_info -F /usr/pkg/man/man1/perlmacosx.1
> > >pkg_info: No matching pkg for /usr/pkg/man/man1/perlmacosx.1.
> > >
> > >I've no idea why a use destination directory build with "PKG_DELEVOPER" set
> > >to "yes" doesn't catch that.
> >
> > Those symbolic links will be created with perllink(1) in pkg's POST-INSTALL
> > phase. (see perllink.in and {de,}install.tmpl in pkgsrc/lang/perl5/files)
>
> perllink(1) doesn't seem to honor "MANZ". As a result all these
> symbolic links are broken on my systems.

I feel it is not a job for perllink(1).
Who compressed man pages? and it should fix `.packlist' file additionally.
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