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Re: Latest "perl" package installs stray symbolic links



On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 10:49:00PM +0900, OBATA Akio wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 22:34:34 +0900, Matthias Scheler 
> <tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost> wrote:
> 
> >the latest version of the "perl" package in "pkgsrc" HEAD installs
> >stray symbolic links:
> >
> >tron@lyssa:~>ls -l /usr/pkg/man/man1/perlmacosx.1
> >lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  37 Feb 25 13:30 /usr/pkg/man/man1/perlmacosx.1 -> 
> >../../lib/perl5/man/man1/perlmacosx.1
> >tron@lyssa:~>pkg_info -F /usr/pkg/man/man1/perlmacosx.1
> >pkg_info: No matching pkg for /usr/pkg/man/man1/perlmacosx.1.
> >
> >I've no idea why a use destination directory build with "PKG_DELEVOPER" set
> >to "yes" doesn't catch that.
> 
> Those symbolic links will be created with perllink(1) in pkg's POST-INSTALL
> phase. (see perllink.in and {de,}install.tmpl in pkgsrc/lang/perl5/files)

perllink(1) doesn't seem to honor "MANZ". As a result all these
symbolic links are broken on my systems.

        Kind regards

-- 
Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/


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