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From: Kent Fredric <kentnl@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] bzipped manpages
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2017 21:18:19
Message-Id: 20170110101724.7d2c630e@katipo2.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] bzipped manpages by Mike Auty
1 On Mon, 9 Jan 2017 09:30:11 +0000
2 Mike Auty <ikelos@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > As mentioned in [2,3,others]. You'll then need to reinstall all
5 > packages.
6
7 Well, most. Probably a subset of "all", and if anything gets stuck half way, you'll
8 want to know which remaining packages need merged.
9
10 find /usr/share/man/ -name "*.bz2" -print0 | xargs -0 qfile -qC | sort -u
11
12 This aught to be a good starting point for determining which packages to re-emerge.
13
14 > If you manually decompress the files, then the uncompressed
15 > manpages won't be registered with portage and won't get removed if the
16 > owning package is uninstalled. Hope that helps...
17
18 And if you've already done this, knowing which files are no longer "tracked" by portage
19 so you can purge them might be helpful:
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21 find /usr/share/man/ -type f -print0 | xargs -0 qfile -Co
22
23 I myself found some weird things lurking ...
24
25 /usr/share/man/:
26 /usr/share/man/tack:
27 /usr/share/man/ize ;-) ... [ ok ]