#860911 freeipmi-tools: /usr/share/man/man5/bmc-config.conf.5.gz contains a link to an invalid location

Package:
freeipmi-tools
Source:
freeipmi
Description:
GNU implementation of the IPMI protocol - tools
Submitter:
Ryan
Date:
2026-06-12 20:35:01 UTC
Severity:
minor
#860911#5
Date:
2017-04-21 18:40:31 UTC
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To:
Dear Maintainer,

Part 1: Invalid manpage link
Checking manpages with mandb -t reported:
 mandb: can't open /usr/share/man/man8/ipmi-config.conf.5: No such file or directory
 mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man5/bmc-config.conf.5.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request

Checking the man file content shows an invalid link:
~ zcat /usr/share/man/man5/bmc-config.conf.5.gz
.so man8/ipmi-config.conf.5

Fix option a: Text change 'man8' to 'man5'
 .so man5/ipmi-config.conf.5

(If doing this, I'd also suggest _not_ making it gz, it is smaller
uncompressed)

Fix option b: replace the file with a symlink:
bmc-config.conf.5.gz -> ipmi-config.conf.5.gz


backing ref: dpkg-query -S /usr/share/man/man5/ipmi-config.conf.5.gz
freeipmi-tools: /usr/share/man/man5/ipmi-config.conf.5.gz

Thanks,
Ryan

#860911#10
Date:
2021-08-05 11:43:11 UTC
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To:
I tried now with freeipmi-tools 1.6.6-4 and both "man bmc-config.conf"
and "man ipmi-config.conf" works correctly and from a fast look symlinks
are correct