Re: some man pages have bugs, can't be grep'd

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On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 8:12 PM Tim Landscheidt <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Chris Murphy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I've been seeing this since clean installing Fedora 30. I don't recall
> > ever seeing it before, including on a Fedora 29 -> Fedora 30 upgraded
> > system (is now the clean installed system).
>
> > [chris@flap ~]$ man rpm | grep -C 10 rpmverbosity
> > <standard input>:176: warning [p 3, 0.8i]: cannot adjust line
> > [chris@flap mantest]$ man rpm >rpm.stdout 2>rpm.stderr
> > [chris@flap mantest]$ ll
> > -rw-rw-r--. 1 chris chris    62 Jul 16 14:24 rpm.stderr
> > -rw-rw-r--. 1 chris chris 28498 Jul 16 14:24 rpm.stdout
>
> > Is this a bug that should be reported against rpm or something else?
> > I'm certain I've seen it in other man pages, but offhand I can't find
> > another example.
>
> (This also happens on Fedora 29, JFTR.)  The warning seems
> to stem from this line in rpm.8:
>
> | […]
> |     175 The default \fIFILELIST\fR is
> |     176 \fI/usr/\:lib/\:rpm/\:macros\fR:\:\fI/usr/\:lib/\:rpm/\:macros.d/\:macros.*\fR:\:\fI/usr/\:lib/\:rpm/\:platform/\:%{_target}/\:macros\fR:\:\fI/usr/\:lib/\:rpm/\
> |     176 :fileattrs/\:*.attr\fR:\:\fI/usr/\:lib/\:rpm/\:redhat/\:macros\fR:\:\fI/etc/\:rpm/\:macros.*\fR:\:\fI/etc/\:rpm/\:macros\fR:\:\fI/etc/\:rpm/\:%{_target}/\:macro
> |     176 s\fR:\:\fI~/.rpmmacros
> |     177
> | […]
>
> This line is too long for the standard layout.  It already
> has hints ("\:"; zero-width break points) where it should be
> broken, but these seem to be ignored.  So prima facie RPM
> has done everything right, and there is an error somewhere
> in the groff/man ecosphere.


OK I filed this
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1730532

Obvious work around is to not search for things that don't exist!


-- 
Chris Murphy
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