On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 02:03:56PM +0000, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
todays man update in tw fails on 4 of 5 tw boxes with: Output of man-2.7.6-5.1.x86_64.rpm %posttrans script: mandb: can't create a temporary filename: Permission denied
the box that succeeds was installed last month. others quite old.
output of "mandb -t" here: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/~paka/mandb.err.txt
does it need bug report?
Here it works: rm -rf /var/cache/man/* rpm -Uhv home/abuild/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/man-2.7.6-0.x86_64.rpm --nodeps --force with rpm -q --changelog man | head * Wed Nov 29 2017 werner@suse.de - Make /var/ache/man a real directory as in system-user-man the directory is gone Werner -- "Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like having a peeing section in a swimming pool." -- Edward Burr