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On Sunday 06 Nov 2011 22:38:37 Florian Philipp wrote: |
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> Am 06.11.2011 20:07, schrieb Mick: |
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> > On Sunday 06 Nov 2011 16:52:02 Alex Schuster wrote: |
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> >> Florian Philipp writes: |
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> >>> Am 06.11.2011 14:13, schrieb Mick: |
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> >>>> Why would there be no traceroute(8) man page on my laptop? |
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> >>>> |
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> >>>> An older x86 box has it and displays it without fuss. |
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> >>> |
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> >>> It seems that the man page has been dropped from the package. Only the |
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> >>> old 2.0.3 version from sourceforge still contains it. I couldn't find |
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> >>> any mention on on bugs.g.o or traceroute-devel. |
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> >> |
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> >> I have traceroute-2.0.18 installed, and I do have the man page. |
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> > |
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> > I am getting confused. x86 box has traceroute-2.0.15 with man page, |
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> > while amd_64 box has same version and no man page. |
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> I bet the man-page disappears when you re-emerge traceroute. According |
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> to changelog, the patch I mentioned in a different message was |
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> introduced without changing the revision number (it doesn't have to |
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> because it just fixes a build problem). If you emerged traceroute-2.0.15 |
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> before the patch was applied, you got the man-page. Afterwards, it is lost. |
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OK! This at least explains why remerging today did not add the man page. |
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Thanks for shedding a light on this. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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