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

[waterlan <waterlan@xs4all.nl>]

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,

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

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