Re: (OT) path_helper [was Re: Xterm not reading dotfiles]
Re: (OT) path_helper [was Re: Xterm not reading dotfiles]
- Subject: Re: (OT) path_helper [was Re: Xterm not reading dotfiles]
- From: Robert T Wyatt <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 19:31:47 -0600
- Organization: The University of Texas at Austin
Martin Costabel wrote:
<snip>
Then you are perhaps bitten by the same installer bug as I: I
have hundreds of Tiger man pages still sitting in /usr/share/man/manX
side by side with the Leopard man pages. And the man command chooses the
old ones over the new ones every time.
For example I have
ls -l /usr/share/man/man1/man*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 10981 Jul 2 2006 /usr/share/man/man1/man.1
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 4821 Sep 24 03:54 /usr/share/man/man1/man.1.gz
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 5 Oct 9 2006
/usr/share/man/man1/manpath.1 -> man.1
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 8 Oct 28 12:56
/usr/share/man/man1/manpath.1.gz -> man.1.gz
I think you're fortunate if this was your only side effect; my Update
experience included legacy (now-broken) gcc's, etc (admittedly this
could perhaps have been prevented by uninstalling the old XCode before
the upgrade, but it didn't cross my mind at the time). I found that an
Archive and Install (preserving users) got around quite a bit of
messiness (but it still left things like .xinitrc lying around like a
snake in the grass...). Too dramatic? Anyway, I only have one set of man
pages now.
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