Ken wrote: >No, all the later packages are free to install pages from >man-pages. [...] >So, because the documentation from the packages is likely to be up >to date (but items in 'c' above are not), the later packages can >update man-pages as they choose.
err... stop! wait a minute! confusion! (><!) as I wrote, I'm using the user-based package management system described at: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/more_control_and_pkg_man.txt which means that every time I need to install something on the system, I create an user just for that pack, then I switch to that user, and do everything (configuring, building and installing), so that every file installed is owned by that user. I don't know what do you mean with "install FROM", writing: >No, all the later packages are free to install pages from >man-pages. I'm talking about a pack which install TO (=OVER another installation, not from it. :P). I was talking about the "coreutils user" which is not supposed to overwrite pages "owned" (in my case) by the "man-pages" user, created at an earlier step, during the installation of man-page files, just for that purpose. now that document say: «One thing that a package user is not allowed to do, for example, is to overwrite files from a different package user.» and also «Every attempt of doing this during package B's installation will cause a "Permission denied" or "Operation not permitted" error so that you have the chance of taking appropriate steps.» and about the coreutils pack: «NOTE: The man-pages package has already installed manpages for the binaries from coreutils. The install wrapper will prevent coreutils from overwriting those. This is done because the manpages from the man-pages package are of superior quality. It also prevents errors during `make install' that would otherwise occur because the coreutils package user cannot overwrite manpages owned by another user.» this is what I was talking about. :P if you say: >all the later packages are free to install pages from >man-pages." well, then this make confusion in my head! (O_o!) (I suppose you didn't notice on my previous email that I was referring to that package management system. : P) anyway, the problem probably doesn't even exists. I was unsure because I noticed many files owned by the 'coreutils' user on the /man dirs, but perhaps that the note mentioned above is referring to just 'some' pages, so that 'coreutils' user just avoid to overwrite the existing files, and the ones I see are new ones (not present of man-pages package?) and then it should be ok as it is.. dunno. I'll check it when I'll have time (and I'll be in the right mood for this.. :P) (but we're going out of the perl issue. :P) :) yayo -- yayo's software & codes: - TRASHY (http://trashy.sourceforge.net/index.php) - pXw4Pa (http://pxw4pa.sourceforge.net/index.php) -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
