On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Mark Stodola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been dragging around a copy of xman since it was dropped from the RH > distributions for several years now. It worked great on RH9 and SL4.1. I'm > currently testing SL5.2 and xman does not appear to be finding any manual > pages anymore. I've verified MANPATH and everything else looks to be > correct, as compared to my 4.1 setup. > > I'm curious if anyone can shed some light on the subject. I doubt anyone > else is still dragging xman around... Are the manpages being > handled/generated differently in SL 5 vs 4? >
Don't know enough about xman anymore to tell.. but man pages look the same format between 4.6 and 5.2 system. However man did go through a major rewrite between 1.5 and 1.6 code.. RHEL-4 man-1.5o1-11.el4 RHEL-5 man-1.6d-1.1 > As a side note, I've noticed the 'makewhatis' script is now back in > /usr/sbin (as opposed to /usr/bin) and not executable by a normal user. > Probably TUV's fault, but this script should be executable as a normal > user, as passing -o allows for creating local, user-owned whatis files. > rpm -q man --changelog showed me this on an RHEL box. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=140729 > Cheers, > Mark > > -- > Mr. Mark V. Stodola > Digital Systems Engineer > > National Electrostatics Corp. > P.O. Box 620310 > Middleton, WI 53562-0310 USA > Phone: (608) 831-7600 > Fax: (608) 831-9591 > -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice"
