traceroute --help is still there though. Érico V. Porto
On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 8:38 PM, Florian Philipp <li...@binarywings.net>wrote: > Am 06.11.2011 20:07, schrieb Mick: > > On Sunday 06 Nov 2011 16:52:02 Alex Schuster wrote: > >> Florian Philipp writes: > >>> Am 06.11.2011 14:13, schrieb Mick: > >>>> Why would there be no traceroute(8) man page on my laptop? > >>>> > >>>> An older x86 box has it and displays it without fuss. > >>> > >>> It seems that the man page has been dropped from the package. Only the > >>> old 2.0.3 version from sourceforge still contains it. I couldn't find > >>> any mention on on bugs.g.o or traceroute-devel. > >> > >> I have traceroute-2.0.18 installed, and I do have the man page. > > > > I am getting confused. x86 box has traceroute-2.0.15 with man page, > while > > amd_64 box has same version and no man page. > > > > I bet the man-page disappears when you re-emerge traceroute. According > to changelog, the patch I mentioned in a different message was > introduced without changing the revision number (it doesn't have to > because it just fixes a build problem). If you emerged traceroute-2.0.15 > before the patch was applied, you got the man-page. Afterwards, it is lost. > > Regards, > Florian Philipp > >
