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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: dos2unix 6.0.6-1 & man-db limitation


Marco Atzeri schreef op 2014-08-16 17:44:
On 16/08/2014 15:26, Marco Atzeri wrote:


3rd and final (I hope),
the reason way only u2d man page has problem

mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/u2d.1.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request

it is because it has a double redirection while
all the other pages have a single ".so" redirection


d2u.1.gz         .so dos2unix.1
mac2unix.1.gz    .so dos2unix.1
u2d.1.gz         .so unix2dos.1
unix2dos.1.gz    .so dos2unix.1
unix2mac.1.gz    .so dos2unix.1

u2d.1.gz         .so unix2dos.1
 -> unix2dos.1.gz    .so dos2unix.1
   -> dos2unix.1.gz   the_real_page

$ ls -l *unix*
-rw-r--r-- 1 marco None 7143 Aug  5 00:31 dos2unix.1.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 marco None   46 Aug  5 00:31 mac2unix.1.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 marco None   46 Aug  5 00:31 unix2dos.1.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 marco None   46 Aug  5 00:31 unix2mac.1.gz


So it is a limitation of man-db but the workaround is very simple

$ cp d2u.1.gz u2d.1.gz


Hi Marco,

Thanks for the report. In the next release I link u2d.1.gz directly to dos2unix.1.gz.

On Linux the d2u and u2d links are not installed. This is only done on Cygwin, because the previous dos2unix implementation (part of cygutils) used to have these commands.

regards,

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Erwin Waterlander
http://waterlan.home.xs4all.nl/

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