[arch-dev-public] [signoff] man-db 2.5.3-2 replacing man

Eric Bélanger snowmaniscool at gmail.com
Thu Feb 19 19:25:10 EST 2009


On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Andreas Radke <a.radke at arcor.de> wrote:
> Am Thu, 19 Feb 2009 07:27:01 -0600
> schrieb Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com>:
>
>> Don't Andy's and Jan's words here contradict with regard to creating
>> a man user?
>>
>> -Dan
>>
>
> This was my mistake. I had cp'ed the install file from the community
> pkg and missed make my changes before the commit.
>
> So a -2 pkg is now up for signoff. I removed the unwanted man user
> creation. Added a msg for anybody upgrading from 2.5.3-1 and earlier to
> remove the user and change permission on the db dir. The cronjob runs in
> quiet mode now. Added a backup array for its config file. Now it should
> be ready to move.
>
> Anything else to improve?
>
> -Andy
>

There's a typo in the post-install message (required instead of
requiered). I'm not a native speaker but I would change it to:

     echo "The system user \"man\" is not required anymore."
     echo "Please run \"userdel man\" and \"chown root:root /var/cache/man\""


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