Bug 90732 - Upgrade to RH9 Broke Papersize Settings
Summary: Upgrade to RH9 Broke Papersize Settings
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Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: groff
Version: 9
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Florian La Roche
QA Contact: Mike McLean
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-05-13 02:19 UTC by John Verel
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:53 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2003-05-21 09:05:27 UTC
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Description John Verel 2003-05-13 02:19:49 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225

Description of problem:
Upgraded to 9 from 8.  Under 8 had changed paper size in:
/usr/share/groff/1.18.1/font/devX100-12/DESC from A4 to letter.
Upgrade to 9 changed back to A4 with no rpmsave file.

Installer should check locale, i.e. United States, and make reasonable
assumption about paper size, e.g, letter.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
groff-1.18.1-20

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enter 'man -t man | lpr'
2. Go to printer  located in US loaded with 8.5 x 11 size paper
3. Observe that paper size format choice is wrong
    

Actual Results:  See above.

Expected Results:  Should have assumed letter size paper

Additional info:

Upgrade, if it changes anything, should leave an .rpmsave file and an upgrade
log entry.  I examined /root/upgrade.log.  No indication of change.

Comment 1 Florian La Roche 2003-05-21 09:05:27 UTC
The above file is no real config file to change papersize. Also upstream
groff has decided to not use locale settings to determin the papersize due
to historical reasons. I'll stay with that decision for the Red Hat rpm
package, too.

Thanks a lot for your report,

Florian La Roche



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