Hi Leo! On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 4:29 AM, Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 04:56:39PM -0400, Ludovic Court�s wrote: > > civodul pushed a commit to branch master > > in repository guix. > > > > commit a0b87ef8ec7735aa42cf35d380e9cff04f3236f3 > > Author: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.courno...@gmail.com> > > Date: Wed Apr 5 01:09:22 2017 -0700 > > > > profiles: Generate database file for man pages. > > > > The mandb database file (index.db) is used by the "apropos" (whatis) > or > > "man -k" commands. This change introduces a profile hook to generate > > such database file. > > > > * guix/profiles.scm (manual-database): New procedure. > > (%default-profile-hooks): Add it. > > > > Co-authored-by: Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> > > Recently, I notice messages like this when doing profile operations: > > [...] > creating manual page database for 49 packages... > find-files: /gnu/store/0y3qrzzwfxf601g885967wcringvnw > 69-gimp-2.8.18/share/man/man1/gimp-console.1: No such file or directory > [...] > > The file in question is a symlink: > $ ls -l /gnu/store/0y3qrzzwfxf601g885967wcringvnw > 69-gimp-2.8.18/share/man/man1/gimp-console.1 > lrwxrwxrwx 5 root root 21 Dec 31 1969 /gnu/store/ > 0y3qrzzwfxf601g885967wcringvnw69-gimp-2.8.18/share/man/man1/gimp-console.1 > -> gimp-console-2.8.1.gz > This find-files (used in the manual-database hook) message is caused by the fact the gimp-console-2.8.1.gz file doesn`t exist (IOW, the gimp-console.1 symlink is broken). It would be nice to investigate is this Gimp problem comes from upstream or as a result of our build process. Maxim
