Bug 19555 - man doesn't resolve includes of other man files properly
Summary: man doesn't resolve includes of other man files properly
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: groff
Version: 8.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Florian La Roche
QA Contact: David Lawrence
URL:
Whiteboard:
: 10814 16338 21815 33680 41118 42490 50818 56947 57384 62525 64932 67158 69727 69732 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2000-10-22 20:23 UTC by dh_redhat
Modified: 2005-10-31 22:00 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2003-02-28 22:19:54 UTC
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Description dh_redhat 2000-10-22 20:23:12 UTC 
Type 'man zshall', it will start with the following errors:

<standard input>:23: realpath on `man1/zshmisc.1' failed: No such file or 
directory
<standard input>:24: realpath on `man1/zshexpn.1' failed: No such file or 
directory
<standard input>:25: realpath on `man1/zshbuiltins.1' failed: No such file 
or directory
<standard input>:26: realpath on `man1/zshcompctl.1' failed: No such file 
or directory
<standard input>:27: realpath on `man1/zshparam.1' failed: No such file or 
directory
<standard input>:28: realpath on `man1/zshzle.1' failed: No such file or 
directory
<standard input>:29: realpath on `man1/zshoptions.1' failed: No such file 
or directory


Workaround:

su root
cd /usr/share/man/man1
gunzip zsh*
cd /var/cache/man/man1
rm zsh*
cd /
man zshall
exit

The problem is that zshall is a meta man page and it can't follow the 
links to the .gz sections like zshmisc, zshbuiltins, etc.
Comment 1 dh_redhat 2000-10-22 20:25:08 UTC 
The version of zsh is zsh-3.0.8-3
Comment 2 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2000-10-22 20:42:57 UTC 
Bero, man broke again.
Comment 3 dh_redhat 2000-10-23 04:25:27 UTC 
I suspect there are other man pages that suffer of the same problem, e.g. links 
in them that cannot be resolved because all the man pages are gzipped.
Comment 4 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2000-12-06 21:44:44 UTC 
*** Bug 21815 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2001-03-28 21:09:26 UTC 
OK, I just changed the summary. Bero, this affects quite a few packages...
including "man-pages", "pvm", "zsh" - and these are just the ones I've seen the
problem in. Could you fix this ASAP? TIA.
Comment 6 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2001-03-28 21:09:53 UTC 
*** Bug 33680 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2001-04-25 08:54:00 UTC 
I think the right fix is to make groff 
handle inclusions of gzipped stuff...
Comment 8 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2001-05-29 16:27:53 UTC 
*** Bug 42490 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 9 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2001-05-29 16:30:16 UTC 
*** Bug 41118 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 10 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2001-08-03 16:44:41 UTC 
*** Bug 50818 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 11 Glen Foster 2001-10-19 20:00:52 UTC 
Seeing same problem on s390 beta-tree
Comment 12 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2001-12-11 17:14:48 UTC 
*** Bug 57384 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 13 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2002-05-14 20:52:10 UTC 
*** Bug 64932 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 14 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2002-05-14 20:53:33 UTC 
*** Bug 10814 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 15 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2002-05-14 20:54:59 UTC 
*** Bug 16338 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 16 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2002-05-14 20:55:17 UTC 
*** Bug 56947 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 17 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2002-06-20 15:03:50 UTC 
*** Bug 67158 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 18 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2002-07-24 20:30:30 UTC 
*** Bug 69727 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 19 dh_redhat 2002-07-24 20:51:53 UTC 
wow, i cannot believe this, i reported this bug almost 2 years ago and it is 
still not fixed, new bugs are still being marked as a dup of this one ... 
wasn't open source supposed to address all problems quickly?
Comment 20 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2002-07-26 21:01:02 UTC 
*** Bug 69732 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 21 Tim Waugh 2002-10-07 11:15:33 UTC 
*** Bug 62525 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 22 Florian La Roche 2003-02-28 22:19:54 UTC 
Took quite some time, but now the current rpm handels this.

greetings,

Florian La Roche
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