[Devil-linux-develop] Bug? - copy_man

[Martin G. <sou...@gl...>]

Hey all

Just came across something strange with respect to the man pages created on 
the cdtree - in /usr/share/man

My /usr/share/man/man5 is not a directory, but rather an actual file. Happens 
to be the syslog-ng.conf man page. 

I think there is a bug in the copy_man function in build/functions

copy_man ()
{
        BD=$1
        [ -z "$BD" ] && BD=$(pwd)
        for I in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
        do
                cp -dp $BD/*.$I $CDDIR/usr/share/man/man$I 2> /dev/null
                cp -dp $BD/*.$I.gz $CDDIR/usr/share/man/man$I 2> /dev/null
                cp -dp $BD/*.$I.bz2 $CDDIR/usr/share/man/man$I 2> /dev/null
        done
        return 0
}

Correct me if I'm wrong, but if the manX directory does not yet exist when 
this script is run, then instead of copying the file into the manX directory, 
it will actually copy the file into a file called manX and hence the problem 
I am seeing.

This causes a few problems later in the build/install process, but nothing 
serious enough to warrent an exit error.

If I am correct, then I would suggest one workaround would be to create the 
actual man directories before doing the cp - ie add the following line after 
the do
	mkdir -p $CDDIR/usr/share/man/man$I 2>/dev/null

thoughts?

Martin