Bug 8594 – popt documentation points for "latest source" location which doesn't contain the latest source

Bug 8594 - popt documentation points for "latest source" location which doesn't contain the latest source

Summary:	popt documentation points for "latest source" location which doesn't contain ...

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	popt (Show other bugs)
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Version:	6.0
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity low
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Assigned To:	Erik Troan
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URL:	ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/code/...
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Reported:	2000-01-19 04:07 EST by Santeri Paavolainen
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:37 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2000-01-19 10:30:43 EST
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Description Santeri Paavolainen 2000-01-19 04:07:27 EST

With "popt-1.3-1" the manual page says

       The popt library is highly portable and should work on any
       POSIX  platform.   The  latest version is always available
       from: ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/code/popt.

but the given ftp directory contains only versions of popt up to 1.2, and
not the 1.3 from which the manual page was from.

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2000-01-19 10:30:59 EST

Popt is now part of rpm-3.0.4, so get the latest popt-1.5 package from Raw Hide
and the sources for it from the rpm-3.0.4*.src.rpm. Alternatively, you
can try a CVS checkout:

This version is also available through anonymous cvs:
        cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.rpm.org:/cvs/devel login
        (no password, just carriage return)
        cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.rpm.org:/cvs/devel get popt
        cd popt

RPM sources are available from the same server.

Comment 2 Greg Hudson 2001-02-05 21:11:39 EST

This bug report was erroneously resolved as "not a bug" and was not fixed.
There is a bug; namely, that the man page (popt.3) and the spec file (popt.spec)
contain out of date information about how to obtain new versions of popt.  This
documentation bug has not been fixed as of today in CVS.

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