El 28/07/08 02:48 LUK ShunTim escribió: > Package: checkinstall > Version: 1.6.1-8 > Severity: grave > Justification: causes non-serious data loss
I'm not really sure if this is a grave bug... we'll leave it like this for now. > > I guess this is result of filesystem translation not working properly with > the newer kernels as reported previously. > > When checkinstall is doing "Compressing man pages", it messes up the real > man pages in /usr/share/man etc by re-compressing all man pages files > (harmless, though) and rendering symbolic links to just an invalid .gz > link. :-( Note: TRANSLATE=0 set and checkinstall invoked with root > previlege. Then it shouldn't be the filesystem translation code. > > A possible work around is to disable compressing man pages by setting > COMPRESS_MAN=0. But it appears that files left by checkinstall in > /usr/share/man etc are not cleaned up for the case when INSTALL=0 is set. Could you provide a more complete description of the problem, please? Hopefully with a test case. From what I gather: - Calling checkinstall without filesystem translation causes manpages to doubly compress, which breaks them. Which manpages? Package was already installed? Please post a full checkinstall log with debug enabled. Saludos, Felipe Sateler
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