John Gilmartin
2011-Jan-13 17:10 UTC
Formatting bug in rsync man page? (man -k, whatis, catman -w)
Hi guys, I'm new to this mailing list as I just came across a small
problem after installing the rsync package on one of our Solaris 10
machines.
I installed rsync package SMCrsync v3.0.7 SPARC and although command
man rsync worked, man -k rsync and whatis rsync did not despite the
fact that I had run a catman -w to rebuild the windex databases. After
reading the catman man page, I suspected it might be due to the
formatting of the line following .SH "NAME" in the man page file
/usr/local/share/man/man1/rsync.1. I changed it from?
rsync \(em a fast, versatile, remote (and local) file-copying tool
? to?
rsync \- a fast, versatile, remote (and local) file-copying tool
? and then ran catman ?w again and it had the desired result, i.e. fixed.
The rsync bug-tracking page on rsync's website suggests discussing any
suspected bugs on this list so I thought I'd do that before going all
guns blazing and raising a bug report.
John Gilmartin
This is on Solaris 10 SPARC Update 8 with recommended patch cluster
30th Nov 2010...
root at myhost:/# uname -a
SunOS myhost 5.10 Generic_144488-04 sun4u sparc SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise
root at myhost:/# pkginfo -l SMCrsync
PKGINST: SMCrsync
NAME: rsync
CATEGORY: application
ARCH: sparc
VERSION: 3.0.7
BASEDIR: /usr/local
VENDOR: The Rsync Group
PSTAMP: Steve Christensen
INSTDATE: Jan 13 2011 15:12
EMAIL: steve at smc.vnet.net
STATUS: completely installed
FILES: 25 installed pathnames
5 shared pathnames
8 directories
1 executables
1711 blocks used (approx)
root at myhost:/#
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