Bug#305053: [PATCH] don't create a slave link for non-existing man pages

Barry Hawkins barry at alltc.com
Fri Oct 20 17:08:18 CEST 2006


Holger Detering wrote:
> Package: java-package
> Version: 0.28
> Followup-For: Bug #305053
> 
> Here is a patch that solves the dangling symlink issue both for Sun's
> JRE and SDK.  The key idea is to not create slave links for non-existing
> man pages.
> 
> I've tested this with Sun's jdk-1_5_0_09-linux-i586.bin and
> jre-1_5_0_09-linux-i586.bin (1.5.0+update09).
> 
> Holger
[...]
Thanks, it's tough to account for all the vendor's different versions
and which ones do and do not have man pages.  This helps out.

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