On 5/2/07, Eric Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> * Aaron Griffin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > On 5/1/07, Dan McGee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On 5/1/07, Eric Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > I got pacman 3.03 from testing, but no manpage found?
> > > >
> > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ man pacman
> > > > No manual entry for pacman
> > > >
> > > > anybody else have that problem?
> > >
> > > Check your permissions on the directory in /usr/man. You will probably
> > > see some that got messed up, its related to a bug in the coreutils
> > > package that has since been fixed. pacman 3.0.1 was the culprit as far
> > > as we can tell. You should be able to fix the permissions and access
> > > ALL manpages again (pacman is not the only one that is broken).
> >
> > According to cactus, 3.0.3-1 had the permission issue.  I've thrown a
> > 3.0.3-2 package up there which was a simple rebuild with valid
> > permissions
> I just updated the system again and it pulled pacman 3.0.3-2 but I still
> have the same problem.
> what should the permissions be on /usr/man/ ?
> this is what I have
>
> drwxr-xr-x  53 root root 4.0K 2007-04-28 09:36 man/
>
> isnt' read and execute enough to use man pages?

Check the subdirectories of /usr/man, that is where the problems were
seen (man3, man8, etc.).

-Dan

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