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From: "Érico Porto" <ericoporto2008@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] No man page for traceroute?
Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2011 22:57:02
Message-Id: CAG1KTJeT6zpSpt+G9DRE16=09npp434qPm_9uB-yCzFQ_dkkHg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] No man page for traceroute? by Florian Philipp
1 traceroute --help is still there though.
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3 Érico V. Porto
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6 On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 8:38 PM, Florian Philipp <lists@×××××××××××.net>wrote:
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8 > Am 06.11.2011 20:07, schrieb Mick:
9 > > On Sunday 06 Nov 2011 16:52:02 Alex Schuster wrote:
10 > >> Florian Philipp writes:
11 > >>> Am 06.11.2011 14:13, schrieb Mick:
12 > >>>> Why would there be no traceroute(8) man page on my laptop?
13 > >>>>
14 > >>>> An older x86 box has it and displays it without fuss.
15 > >>>
16 > >>> It seems that the man page has been dropped from the package. Only the
17 > >>> old 2.0.3 version from sourceforge still contains it. I couldn't find
18 > >>> any mention on on bugs.g.o or traceroute-devel.
19 > >>
20 > >> I have traceroute-2.0.18 installed, and I do have the man page.
21 > >
22 > > I am getting confused. x86 box has traceroute-2.0.15 with man page,
23 > while
24 > > amd_64 box has same version and no man page.
25 > >
26 >
27 > I bet the man-page disappears when you re-emerge traceroute. According
28 > to changelog, the patch I mentioned in a different message was
29 > introduced without changing the revision number (it doesn't have to
30 > because it just fixes a build problem). If you emerged traceroute-2.0.15
31 > before the patch was applied, you got the man-page. Afterwards, it is lost.
32 >
33 > Regards,
34 > Florian Philipp
35 >
36 >