Just a warning to rpm makers:  at least under RH 6.0, the stuff in the
cat directories get gzipped, and then ordinary users cannot view those
man pages anymore.  I do not really know what the heck is going on:

$ man qmail-command
rm: remove write-protected file `/var/qmail/man/cat8/qmail-command.8.gz'? 
Formatting page, please wait...
sh: /var/qmail/man/cat8/qmail-command.8.gz: Permission denied
Error executing formatting or display command.
System command (cd /var/qmail/man ; (echo -e ".pl 1100i"; /bin/cat 
/var/qmail/man/man8/qmail-command.8; echo ".pl \n(nlu+10") | /usr/bin/gtbl | 
/usr/bin/groff -Tascii -mandoc | /bin/gzip > /var/qmail/man/cat8/qmail-command.8.gz) 
exited with status 1.
rm: remove write-protected file `/var/qmail/man/cat8/qmail-command.8.gz'? 

gunzip: /var/qmail/man/cat8/qmail-command.8.gz: unexpected end of file


The upshot is that the formatted man pages I think should not be
installed.  (I think David S. and Sam already makes sure of this).


Mate

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