On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Mark Stodola <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I've been dragging around a copy of xman since it was dropped from the RH
> distributions for several years now.  It worked great on RH9 and SL4.1.  I'm
> currently testing SL5.2 and xman does not appear to be finding any manual
> pages anymore.  I've verified MANPATH and everything else looks to be
> correct, as compared to my 4.1 setup.
>
> I'm curious if anyone can shed some light on the subject.  I doubt anyone
> else is still dragging xman around...  Are the manpages being
> handled/generated differently in SL 5 vs 4?
>

Don't know enough about xman anymore to tell.. but man pages look the
same format between 4.6 and 5.2 system. However man did go through a
major rewrite between 1.5 and 1.6 code..

RHEL-4 man-1.5o1-11.el4
RHEL-5 man-1.6d-1.1

> As a side note, I've noticed the 'makewhatis' script is now back in
> /usr/sbin (as opposed to /usr/bin) and not executable by a normal user.
>  Probably TUV's fault, but this script should be executable as a normal
> user, as passing -o allows for creating local, user-owned whatis files.
>

rpm -q man --changelog showed me this on an RHEL box.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=140729

> Cheers,
> Mark
>
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> Mr. Mark V. Stodola
> Digital Systems Engineer
>
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