/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
>
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