Re: Non-sensical DNF Functionality

2024-12-14 Thread Tim via users
Tim: > > Usually man pages are wrapped and "justified" so that each line of text > > is the same length (just under the current width of the viewing > > window). It does the justifying by adding extra spaces between some > > words, and hyphenating others. > > > > Does that describe what you're se

Re: Non-sensical DNF Functionality

2024-12-14 Thread Stephen Morris
On 14/12/24 11:27, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 7:22 PM Tim via users wrote: Greg: This is by no means an issue. The program you use to display the man page, let's assume man, formats the man page source code, using the groff program in turn. Part of the formatting is making i

Re: Non-sensical DNF Functionality

2024-12-14 Thread Stephen Morris
On 14/12/24 11:21, Tim via users wrote: Greg: This is by no means an issue. The program you use to display the man page, let's assume man, formats the man page source code, using the groff program in turn. Part of the formatting is making intervals between the words on a line more or less equal

Re: Non-sensical DNF Functionality

2024-12-13 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 7:22 PM Tim via users wrote: > > Greg: > > > This is by no means an issue. > > > The program you use to display the man page, let's assume man, > > > formats the man page source code, using the groff program in turn. > > > Part of the formatting is making intervals between

Re: Non-sensical DNF Functionality

2024-12-13 Thread Tim via users
Greg: > > This is by no means an issue. > > The program you use to display the man page, let's assume man, > > formats the man page source code, using the groff program in turn. > > Part of the formatting is making intervals between the words on a line > > more or less equal by adding/removing blan

Re: Non-sensical DNF Functionality

2024-12-13 Thread Stephen Morris
On 14/12/24 05:44, greg wrote: I have also encountered another issue, I've modified the man file to document the extra option I have added, and when I display the man page, for my changes there are place where it is displaying two blanks between words where in the source there is only one, and

Re: Non-sensical DNF Functionality

2024-12-13 Thread greg
> I have also encountered another issue, I've modified the man file to document > the extra option I have added, and when I display the man page, > for my changes there are place where it is displaying two blanks between > words where in the source there is only one, and I don't know why > it is

Re: Non-sensical DNF Functionality

2024-12-13 Thread greg
> I have also encountered another issue, I've modified the man file to document > the extra option I have added, and when I display the man page, > for my changes there are place where it is displaying two blanks between > words where in the source there is only one, and I don't know why it > is

Re: Non-sensical DNF Functionality

2024-12-12 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Fri, Dec 6, 2024 at 9:28 PM Todd Zullinger wrote: > > Stephen Morris wrote: > > Yes, but this still highlights the final question as "sudo dnf download > > symlinks-1.7-11.fc41.src" does the download but as shown above "sudo dnf > > install symlinks-1.7-11.fc41.src" won't do the install. > > >

Re: Non-sensical DNF Functionality

2024-12-12 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/12/24 2:22 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: On 12/12/24 10:18, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/11/24 1:55 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: On 9/12/24 10:47, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/8/24 1:45 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: On 8/12/24 00:50, Barry wrote: On 7 Dec 2024, at 01:54, Stephen Morris wrote: Yes, but

Re: Non-sensical DNF Functionality

2024-12-12 Thread Stephen Morris
On 12/12/24 10:18, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/11/24 1:55 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: On 9/12/24 10:47, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/8/24 1:45 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: On 8/12/24 00:50, Barry wrote: On 7 Dec 2024, at 01:54, Stephen Morris wrote: Yes, but this still highlights the final question as

Re: Non-sensical DNF Functionality

2024-12-11 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/11/24 1:55 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: On 9/12/24 10:47, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/8/24 1:45 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: On 8/12/24 00:50, Barry wrote: On 7 Dec 2024, at 01:54, Stephen Morris wrote: Yes, but this still highlights the final question as "sudo dnf download symlinks-1.7-11.fc4

Re: Non-sensical DNF Functionality

2024-12-11 Thread Stephen Morris
On 9/12/24 10:47, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/8/24 1:45 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: On 8/12/24 00:50, Barry wrote: On 7 Dec 2024, at 01:54, Stephen Morris wrote: Yes, but this still highlights the final question as "sudo dnf download symlinks-1.7-11.fc41.src" does the download but as shown above

Re: Non-sensical DNF Functionality

2024-12-08 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/8/24 1:45 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: On 8/12/24 00:50, Barry wrote: On 7 Dec 2024, at 01:54, Stephen Morris wrote: Yes, but this still highlights the final question as "sudo dnf download symlinks-1.7-11.fc41.src" does the download but as shown above "sudo dnf install symlinks-1.7-11.fc41

Re: Non-sensical DNF Functionality

2024-12-08 Thread Stephen Morris
On 8/12/24 00:50, Barry wrote: On 7 Dec 2024, at 01:54, Stephen Morris wrote: Yes, but this still highlights the final question as "sudo dnf download symlinks-1.7-11.fc41.src" does the download but as shown above "sudo dnf install symlinks-1.7-11.fc41.src" won't do the install. Use rpm -i s

Re: Non-sensical DNF Functionality

2024-12-07 Thread Barry
> On 7 Dec 2024, at 01:54, Stephen Morris wrote: > > Yes, but this still highlights the final question as "sudo dnf download > symlinks-1.7-11.fc41.src" does the download but as shown above "sudo dnf > install symlinks-1.7-11.fc41.src" won't do the install. Use rpm -i src-rpm to install the

Re: Non-sensical DNF Functionality

2024-12-06 Thread Stephen Morris
On 7/12/24 13:27, Todd Zullinger wrote: Stephen Morris wrote: Yes, but this still highlights the final question as "sudo dnf download symlinks-1.7-11.fc41.src" does the download but as shown above "sudo dnf install symlinks-1.7-11.fc41.src" won't do the install. How do I find where the source h

Re: Non-sensical DNF Functionality

2024-12-06 Thread Todd Zullinger
Stephen Morris wrote: > Yes, but this still highlights the final question as "sudo dnf download > symlinks-1.7-11.fc41.src" does the download but as shown above "sudo dnf > install symlinks-1.7-11.fc41.src" won't do the install. > > How do I find where the source has been installed to when under d

Re: Non-sensical DNF Functionality

2024-12-06 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Fri, Dec 6, 2024 at 8:53 PM Stephen Morris wrote: > > On 7/12/24 12:35, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 6, 2024 at 8:30 PM Stephen Morris > wrote: > > I have enabled the Fedora source repository so that I can install the > symlinks source.l > Having enabled the source repositor

Re: Non-sensical DNF Functionality

2024-12-06 Thread Stephen Morris
On 7/12/24 12:35, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Fri, Dec 6, 2024 at 8:30 PM Stephen Morris wrote: Hi, I have enabled the Fedora source repository so that I can install the symlinks source.l Having enabled the source repository I issued the command "sudo dnf install symlinks-1.7-11.fc41.sr

Re: Non-sensical DNF Functionality

2024-12-06 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Fri, Dec 6, 2024 at 8:30 PM Stephen Morris wrote: > > Hi, > I have enabled the Fedora source repository so that I can install the > symlinks source.l > Having enabled the source repository I issued the command "sudo dnf > install symlinks-1.7-11.fc41.src" (the binary package tells me

Non-sensical DNF Functionality

2024-12-06 Thread Stephen Morris
Hi,     I have enabled the Fedora source repository so that I can install the symlinks source.l     Having enabled the source repository I issued the command "sudo dnf install symlinks-1.7-11.fc41.src" (the binary package tells me the source is symlinks-1.7-11.fc41.src.rpm) and got the followin