Re: 04/06: profiles: Generate database file for man pages.

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hi Leo!

On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 4:29 AM, Leo Famulari <address@hidden> wrote:

On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 04:56:39PM -0400, Ludovic Court�s wrote:
> civodul pushed a commit to branch master
> in repository guix.
>
> commit a0b87ef8ec7735aa42cf35d380e9cff04f3236f3
> Author: Maxim Cournoyer <address@hidden>
> Date:   Wed Apr 5 01:09:22 2017 -0700
>
>     profiles: Generate database file for man pages.
>
>     The mandb database file (index.db) is used by the "apropos" (whatis) or
>     "man -k" commands.  This change introduces a profile hook to generate
>     such database file.
>
>     * guix/profiles.scm (manual-database): New procedure.
>     (%default-profile-hooks): Add it.
>
>     Co-authored-by: Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden>

Recently, I notice messages like this when doing profile operations:

[...]
creating manual page database for 49 packages...
find-files: /gnu/store/0y3qrzzwfxf601g885967wcringvnw69-gimp-2.8.18/share/man/man1/gimp-console.1: No such file or directory
[...]

The file in question is a symlink:
$ ls -l /gnu/store/0y3qrzzwfxf601g885967wcringvnw69-gimp-2.8.18/share/man/man1/gimp-console.1
lrwxrwxrwx 5 root root 21 Dec 31  1969 /gnu/store/0y3qrzzwfxf601g885967wcringvnw69-gimp-2.8.18/share/man/man1/gimp-console.1 -> gimp-console-2.8.1.gz

This find-files (used in the manual-database hook) message is caused by the fact the gimp-console-2.8.1.gz file doesn`t exist (IOW, the gimp-console.1 symlink is broken). It would be nice to investigate is this Gimp problem comes from upstream or as a result of our build process.

Maxim