Hello,
On 19-11-2014 2:39, James E Keenan via RT wrote:
Show quoted text> <URL:
https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=91651 >
>
> On Wed Dec 25 07:51:36 2013,
https://openid.stackexchange.com/user/83939ede-74ea-4f6c-8bf4-a4539b9b5220 wrote:
>> calling ExtUtils::Installed->new()->validate( $module )
>> returns a list of man pages that it claims are missing
>> (which they are). However, they are stored gzipped.
>>
>> Replacing the following line in ExtUtils/PackList.pm's validate($;$)
>> method:
>>
>> if (! -e $key )
>>
>> with
>>
>> if (! -e $key && ( $key =~ m@/man/@ ? ! -e $key.".gz" : 1 ) )
>>
>> Fixes the issue. Perhaps a better regexp is needed to match the file
>> extension aswell to avoid false matches, but you get the idea.
>>
>> I apologize for not formatting it as a patch.
>> In version 1.44 (distributed with Cygwin) it is line 207,
>> and in version 1.54 it is line 203:
>>
https://metacpan.org/source/YVES/ExtUtils-Install-
>> 1.54/lib/ExtUtils/Packlist.pm#L203
> Can you give examples of situations where man pages would be stored in .gz format and listed as such in .packlist files?
No, because I have not yet found any such examples. What I'm describing
above is that the .packlist files list man pages uncompressed, whereas
on the filesystem they are sometimes/often stored gzipped.
If i've proposed anything at all in the above, it's not that .packlist
files should list man pages gzipped, but that the
check for the existence of installed manpages should take into account
that they could be stored gzipped.
I've either not investigated, or I have forgotten how these manpages are
installed in the first place, but it's likely that some sort of
install.sh script would gzip them on the fly depending on system settings.
Show quoted text> On my OS (Linux Ubuntu 14.04 LTS), I haven't found any such files, so I'm having trouble investigating your complaint.
It's not a complaint, merely a report.
It's been almost a year, so I can't remember any specific packages or
filenames now, but here's some stats:
On Cygwin:
$ ls /usr/share/man/man3 | grep 3pm\$ | wc -l
1957
$ ls /usr/share/man/man3 | grep 3pm.gz\$ | wc -l
593
On Debian 7:
$ ls /usr/share/man/man3 | grep 3pm\$ | wc -l
0
$ ls /usr/share/man/man3 | grep 3pm.gz\$ | wc -l
593
ls /usr/share/man/man3 | grep 3perl\$ | wc -l
0
ls /usr/share/man/man3 | grep 3perl.gz\$ | wc -l
590
I recall installing many packages using CPAN which put them in
/usr/local/; all the manpages there are uncompressed.
I believe that the issue arises when ExtUtils comes across packages
installed using the OS distributions' package manager.
Show quoted text> Thank you very much.
> Jim Keenan
Thanks for your response,
Kenney Westerhof
