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Date:      Sun, 10 Dec 2017 20:32:39 +0000
From:      bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org
To:        freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   [Bug 224230] manual pages with absolute symlinks in packages
Message-ID:  <bug-224230-13@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>

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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D224230

            Bug ID: 224230
           Summary: manual pages with absolute symlinks in packages
           Product: Ports & Packages
           Version: Latest
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Only Me
          Priority: ---
         Component: Individual Port(s)
          Assignee: freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: wosch@FreeBSD.org

An port may use symbolic links for manual pages. That's fine. However, if s=
ome
of these links are absolute symlinks we are in trouble. It will not work if=
 you
move the manual pages around and use them in other places, e.g. as on
https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi

I checked the packages on pkg.freebsd.org/freebsd:12:x86:64/latest/All
and found these 4 packages with absolute symlinks for man pages:

./libdca-0.0.5_1.txz
./gnuit-4.9.5.txz
./ncbi-toolkit-2012.06.20_1.txz
./xli-1.17.0_16.txz

The absolute links needs to be replaced by relative symlinks or hard links.

in detail:

./libdca-0.0.5_1.txz:lrwxr-xr-x  0 root   wheel       0 Nov 16 01:39
/usr/local/man/man1/dtsdec.1.gz -> /usr/local/man/man1/dcadec.1.gz
./libdca-0.0.5_1.txz:lrwxr-xr-x  0 root   wheel       0 Nov 16 01:39
/usr/local/man/man1/extract_dts.1.gz -> /usr/local/man/man1/extract_dca.1.gz
./gnuit-4.9.5.txz:lrwxr-xr-x  0 root   wheel       0 Nov 17 19:21
/usr/local/man/man1/gitregrep.1.gz -> /usr/local/man/man1/gitrgrep.1.gz
./gnuit-4.9.5.txz:lrwxr-xr-x  0 root   wheel       0 Nov 17 19:21
/usr/local/man/man1/gitrfgrep.1.gz -> /usr/local/man/man1/gitrgrep.1.gz
./ncbi-toolkit-2012.06.20_1.txz:lrwxr-xr-x  0 root   wheel        0 Dec  7
02:13 /usr/local/man/man1/bl2seq.1.gz -> /usr/local/man/man1/blast.1.gz
./ncbi-toolkit-2012.06.20_1.txz:lrwxr-xr-x  0 root   wheel        0 Dec  7
02:13 /usr/local/man/man1/blastall.1.gz -> /usr/local/man/man1/blast.1.gz
./ncbi-toolkit-2012.06.20_1.txz:lrwxr-xr-x  0 root   wheel        0 Dec  7
02:13 /usr/local/man/man1/blastcl3.1.gz -> /usr/local/man/man1/blast.1.gz
./ncbi-toolkit-2012.06.20_1.txz:lrwxr-xr-x  0 root   wheel        0 Dec  7
02:13 /usr/local/man/man1/blastpgp.1.gz -> /usr/local/man/man1/blast.1.gz
./ncbi-toolkit-2012.06.20_1.txz:lrwxr-xr-x  0 root   wheel        0 Dec  7
02:13 /usr/local/man/man1/impala.1.gz -> /usr/local/man/man1/blast.1.gz
./ncbi-toolkit-2012.06.20_1.txz:lrwxr-xr-x  0 root   wheel        0 Dec  7
02:13 /usr/local/man/man1/megablast.1.gz -> /usr/local/man/man1/blast.1.gz
./ncbi-toolkit-2012.06.20_1.txz:lrwxr-xr-x  0 root   wheel        0 Dec  7
02:13 /usr/local/man/man1/rpsblast.1.gz -> /usr/local/man/man1/blast.1.gz
./ncbi-toolkit-2012.06.20_1.txz:lrwxr-xr-x  0 root   wheel        0 Dec  7
02:13 /usr/local/man/man1/seedtop.1.gz -> /usr/local/man/man1/blast.1.gz
./xli-1.17.0_16.txz:lrwxr-xr-x  0 root   wheel       0 Nov 17 03:45
/usr/local/man/man1/xview.1.gz -> /usr/local/man/man1/xli.1.gz
./xli-1.17.0_16.txz:lrwxr-xr-x  0 root   wheel       0 Nov 17 03:45
/usr/local/man/man1/xsetbg.1.gz -> /usr/local/man/man1/xli.1.gz

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