[arch-general] rubbish files in krb5

[Óscar García Amor]

These files refer to hidden configuration files that have these names. If
you simply do `man .k5identity` you will understand why they exist.

Greetings.

El mar, 6 jul 2021 a las 14:19, Yi Zheng via arch-general (<
arch-general at lists.archlinux.org>) escribió:

> Eli Schwartz:
>
>   Thank you for your kindly reply. I got it.
> Do you think  that 2 small gz files should not be the hidden one? I
> searched the dir /usr/share/man, and found that
> those only those 2 files are name as the hidden ones.
>
> Eli Schwartz via arch-general <arch-general at lists.archlinux.org>
> 于2021年7月6日周二 上午9:48写道：
> >
> > On 7/5/21 9:31 PM, Yi Zheng via arch-general wrote:
> > > pkgfile shows:
> > >     core/krb5       /usr/share/man/man5/.k5identity.5.gz
> > >     core/krb5       /usr/share/man/man5/.k5login.5.gz
> > >
> > > I'm sure that they are rubbish due to the small size......
> > >
> > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 42 Mar 21 21:16
> /usr/share/man/man5/.k5identity.5.gz
> > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 39 Mar 21 21:16
> /usr/share/man/man5/.k5login.5.gz
> >
> >
> > They're not "rubbish". They are man's version of symlinks.
> >
> > $ gzip -d < /usr/share/man/man5/.k5identity.5.gz
> > .so man5/k5identity.5
> > $ gzip -d < /usr/share/man/man5/.k5login.5.gz
> > .so man5/k5login.5
> >
> > You may find *many* very small files in /usr/share/man in the range of
> > around 30 bytes to 130 bytes, which contain these zsoelim(1)
> > preprocessor macros that simply include a different page as is.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Eli Schwartz
> > Bug Wrangler and Trusted User
> >
>


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