Brendan O'Dea wrote: > Man pages for perl packages are installed to /usr/share/man/man[13] > with the extensions .1 and .3. > > Modules installed by MakeMaker's vendor install use the same > directories although with extensions .1p and .3pm to avoid potential > conflicts.
mandb complains about competing extensions: mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/CGI::Push.3pm*: competing extensions mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/CGI::Fast.3pm*: competing extensions mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/CGI::Pretty.3pm*: competing extensions mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/CGI::Switch.3*: competing extensions mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/CGI::Carp.3pm*: competing extensions mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/CGI::Apache.3*: competing extensions mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/CGI::Cookie.3pm*: competing extensions mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/CGI.3pm*: competing extensions mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/File::Spec::OS2.3*: competing extensions mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/File::Spec::Mac.3*: competing extensions mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/File::Spec::VMS.3*: competing extensions mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/File::Spec.3*: competing extensions mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/File::Spec::Functions.3*: competing extensions mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/File::Spec::Win32.3*: competing extensions mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/File::Spec::Unix.3*: competing extensions mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/CPAN::Nox.3*: competing extensions mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/CPAN.3*: competing extensions mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/CPAN::FirstTime.3*: competing extensions What should I do about it? And why is 3pm files mixed with 3pm.gz files? -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 39448 feb 26 17:37 CGI.3.gz -r--r--r-- 1 root root 134410 mar 6 22:21 CGI.3pm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 41422 jul 21 2000 CGI.3pm.gz I like the CPAN module and would like new modules to replace older manual pages. Maby I could edit perls Config.pm to use .1 and .3? But how can I make the newly installed modules using gz? Another ting: The perl policy used to be located in perl-doc. Where am I supposed to find it now? -- / Jonas - http://jonas.liljegren.org/myself/en/index.html
