Re: [gentoo-user] man openssl

[Jorge Almeida]

On Fri, 17 Nov 2006, Flophouse Joe wrote:

> On Fri, 17 Nov 2006, Jorge Almeida wrote:
>
>>  I just noticed that I don't have a man page for openssl.
>>  How can this be?
>
> I looked at the output of "equery files --filter=man openssl" and
> noticed that while the openssl package on my system contained *some*
> manpages, it certainly didn't contain a manpage for openssl(1).  Since I
> didn't have any doc-like USE flags specified for the openssl package, I
> took a look at the contents of the openssl tarball.
>
> It looks like some of documentation is in perl's plain-old-documentation
> format under doc/apps/ .  If you extract the tarball, you can view what looks
> like an openssl(1) manpage with
>
> perldoc /path/to/tarball/doc/apps/openssl.pod
>
> This documentation certainly seems like it ought to installed along with the
> openssl manpages.  Does anyone know if it's been excluded purposefully?  (If
> not, Jorge, it might be a good idea to submit a bug about it.)
>
I have access to a FC system, and, sure enough, there is a man page for
openssl. I hope it was a mistake.
Thanks, at least I'm relieved that it's not a problem with my system
(and I guess I must take a better look at equery).

Jorge
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