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From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: man-db-2.10.0-1
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2022 21:35:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878ruml8jt.fsf@Rainer.invalid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1496241235.20220207215821@yandex.ru> (Andrey Repin's message of "Mon, 7 Feb 2022 21:58:21 +0300")

Andrey Repin writes:
> I've checked the database creation out of pure curiosity and it seems there's
> more than one issue with the process.
>
> 1. Running script from the setup postinstall process causes errors like
>
> /usr/bin/mandb: can't update index cache /var/cache/man/1384: No such file or directory
> (the full log attached)

Does /var/cache/man exist and are the permissions sane?  I guess I need
to make sure this gets created when installing the package, will note
that for the next release.

> 2. Manually forcing database creation with `mandb --create` causes multiple
> compilation errors to pop up (log attached)
>
> Errors like
> mandb: can't open /usr/share/man/vim.1: No such file or directory
> mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/ex.1.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request
>
> Can somebody help me and explain, what's going on?

These are all bugs in various manpages and can be ignored.


Regards,
Achim.
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  reply	other threads:[~2022-02-07 20:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-02-06 20:45 Achim Gratz
2022-02-07 18:58 ` Andrey Repin
2022-02-07 20:35   ` Achim Gratz [this message]
2022-02-07 20:53     ` Achim Gratz
2022-02-08 10:18       ` Andrey Repin
2022-02-08 18:54         ` Achim Gratz
2022-02-08 20:00           ` Achim Gratz

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