On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 08:59, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 08:52:45AM -0400, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > It's been missing on my system, too, since about when man-db last moved > > into testing (not saying it was man-db that did this, just that the time > > was the same.) That said, I just went with the older solution of > > defining the PAGER environment variable and exporting it in my shell > > .rc, which was the way I'd been raised to do this. I've declined to file > > a bug report on this because I want to be sure it goes to the right > > package (Maintainers are busy enough - if I can essentially track the > > problem down to a specific patch, hopefully that will save headaches all > > around.) > > Can I guess that you have sawfish-pager installed? It used to clobber > /usr/bin/pager, although it's been fixed now. > Good call - I did that the same day, probably within ten minutes, and ran it for 24 hours at most, before removing it as redundant (a multi-desktop pager that isn't automatically sticky?)
Is there a central repository of what files have been created by packages on the Debian managed part of the filesystem? I just ran into the same problem a couple weeks ago over /usr/bin/blackhole, used by the blackhole-<mta> packages, but also still around in the old xjokes package (now moved to /usr/games after a bug report I filed.) Which also surprises me - I thought I should have had an "attempt to overwrite file belonging to another package" with sawfish-pager - I didn't see anything. Does dpkg wave off that message when it is looking at symlinks? > > This solution above may leave a tad of confusion - the symlink needs to > > be restored to /etc/alternatives/pager for /usr/bin/pager, or you can > > update-alternatives till the cows come home and still get no pager. > > Mea culpa. My tests weren't complete enough: update-alternatives seems > to restore the symlink if only one possible alternative is present, but > not otherwise. > > -- > Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
