/usr/local/man/man1 wiped out

Alexander Best arundel at freebsd.org
Sun Jan 23 14:38:56 UTC 2011


On Wed Jan  5 11, Alexander Best wrote:
> hi there,
> 
> i'm not sure what happend here. i updated a few ports the other day using
> 'portupgrade -a'. nothing special really. today however i notice some manual
> pages like gcc46 are missing. so i checked the contents of /usr/local/man/man1
> and this is what i found:

i was finally able to figure out the reason. the latest clang version
(svn snapshot) was responsible for it. the uninstall target completely removes
/usr/local/man/man1 for some reason.

i sent a message to cfe-dev at cs.uiuc.edu and hopefully they're going to fix
this.

cheers.
alex

> 
> total 1
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel  1024  4 Jan 14:00 .
> drwxr-xr-x  39 root  wheel  1024  3 Jan 03:27 ..
> -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel  2075  4 Jan 13:59 ImageMagick.1.gz
> -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel  1304  4 Jan 13:59 Magick++-config.1.gz
> -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel   671  4 Jan 13:59 Magick-config.1.gz
> -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel   674  4 Jan 13:59 MagickCore-config.1.gz
> -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel   679  4 Jan 13:59 MagickWand-config.1.gz
> -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel   674  4 Jan 13:59 Wand-config.1.gz
> -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel  1999  4 Jan 13:59 animate.1.gz
> -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel  1852  4 Jan 14:00 bdftopcf.1.gz
> -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel  1538  4 Jan 13:59 compare.1.gz
> -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel  2200  4 Jan 13:59 composite.1.gz
> -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel   895  4 Jan 13:59 conjure.1.gz
> -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel  4587  4 Jan 13:59 convert.1.gz
> -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel  2661  4 Jan 13:59 display.1.gz
> -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel  1656  4 Jan 13:59 identify.1.gz
> -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel  2105  4 Jan 13:59 import.1.gz
> -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel  4665  4 Jan 13:59 mogrify.1.gz
> -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel  2562  4 Jan 13:59 montage.1.gz
> -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel  2129  4 Jan 04:06 portaudit.1.gz
> -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel  1357  4 Jan 13:59 stream.1.gz
> -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel  2431  3 Jan 03:39 xdg-desktop-icon.1.gz
> -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel  4345  3 Jan 03:39 xdg-desktop-menu.1.gz
> -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel  1790  3 Jan 03:39 xdg-email.1.gz
> -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel  2512  3 Jan 03:39 xdg-icon-resource.1.gz
> -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel  2509  3 Jan 03:39 xdg-mime.1.gz
> -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel   951  3 Jan 03:39 xdg-open.1.gz
> -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel  1326  3 Jan 03:39 xdg-screensaver.1.gz
> 
> i have over 500 ports installed and now every manual page which was installed
> before running 'portupgrade -a' has been wiped out. :(
> 
> can the following have caused some kind of problems?
> 
> otaku% file /usr/local/share/man 
> /usr/local/share/man: symbolic link to `../man'
> otaku% file /usr/local/man
> /usr/local/man: directory
> 
> manual pages in other directories, like /usr/local/man/man8 don't seem to have
> been scrubbed. only the section 1 manuals.
> 
> cheers.
> alex
> 
> -- 
> a13x

-- 
a13x


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