From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: 04/06: profiles: Generate database file for man pages.
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 10:00:51 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAN-vT6RQLKQ16bhkzvKXTX+1FWvcchJFwdhC3wVUBcT1T_XAjw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170408192944.GA3237@jasmine>
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Hi Leo!
On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 4:29 AM, Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 04:56:39PM -0400, Ludovic Court�s wrote:
> > civodul pushed a commit to branch master
> > in repository guix.
> >
> > commit a0b87ef8ec7735aa42cf35d380e9cff04f3236f3
> > Author: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
> > Date: Wed Apr 5 01:09:22 2017 -0700
> >
> > profiles: Generate database file for man pages.
> >
> > The mandb database file (index.db) is used by the "apropos" (whatis)
> or
> > "man -k" commands. This change introduces a profile hook to generate
> > such database file.
> >
> > * guix/profiles.scm (manual-database): New procedure.
> > (%default-profile-hooks): Add it.
> >
> > Co-authored-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
>
> Recently, I notice messages like this when doing profile operations:
>
> [...]
> creating manual page database for 49 packages...
> find-files: /gnu/store/0y3qrzzwfxf601g885967wcringvnw
> 69-gimp-2.8.18/share/man/man1/gimp-console.1: No such file or directory
> [...]
>
> The file in question is a symlink:
> $ ls -l /gnu/store/0y3qrzzwfxf601g885967wcringvnw
> 69-gimp-2.8.18/share/man/man1/gimp-console.1
> lrwxrwxrwx 5 root root 21 Dec 31 1969 /gnu/store/
> 0y3qrzzwfxf601g885967wcringvnw69-gimp-2.8.18/share/man/man1/gimp-console.1
> -> gimp-console-2.8.1.gz
>
This find-files (used in the manual-database hook) message is caused by the
fact the gimp-console-2.8.1.gz file doesn`t exist (IOW, the gimp-console.1
symlink is broken). It would be nice to investigate is this Gimp problem
comes from upstream or as a result of our build process.
Maxim
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[not found] <20170405205638.12336.78854@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
[not found] ` <20170405205640.15AE6210A4@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
2017-04-08 19:29 ` 04/06: profiles: Generate database file for man pages Leo Famulari
2017-04-10 1:00 ` Maxim Cournoyer [this message]
2017-04-09 17:28 ` myglc2
2017-04-10 1:22 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2017-04-10 1:45 ` myglc2
2017-04-15 0:25 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2017-04-20 9:29 ` Performance of the man page database generation Ludovic Courtès
2017-05-14 6:18 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2017-05-14 15:31 ` myglc2
2017-05-16 8:21 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-05-16 17:24 ` Maxim Cournoyer
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