[OE-core] [PATCH] coreutils: drop patch that unconditionally mangles manpages

Koen Kooi koen at dominion.thruhere.net
Thu Aug 7 05:33:57 UTC 2014


Op 6 aug. 2014, om 22:38 heeft Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker at windriver.com> het volgende geschreven:

> commit 841ec528ec04e64bd09ff10f8d9ad2d6e3aac05d ("coreutils: update
> to upstream version 9.21") added a patch which bypassed the check
> for perl and hence defaults to using the dummy man page for all
> of the coreutils manpages.  This results in all manpages looking like:
> 
>  NAME
>       chmod - a GNU coreutils 8.22 program
> 
>  DESCRIPTION
>       OOOPS!   Due to the lack of perl on the build system, we were unable to
>       create a proper manual page for chmod.
> 
> It is unclear why the test was disabled, but since it clearly
> causes the manpages to be useless, we need to drop this patch.

That all might be true, but DEPENDS doesn't list 'perl' or 'perl-native', so this commit is wrong.


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