Re: git: 0a0f7486413c - main - man: Build manpages for all architectures

From: Ed Maste <emaste_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2021 01:24:48 UTC 
On Wed, 10 Nov 2021 at 20:13, Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 30 Jun 2021 at 04:06, Fernando Apesteguía <fernape@freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> > The branch main has been updated by fernape (doc, ports committer):
> >
> > URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=0a0f7486413c147d56808b38055c40c64cff61f5
> >
> > commit 0a0f7486413c147d56808b38055c40c64cff61f5
> > Author:     Fernando Apesteguía <fernape@FreeBSD.org>
> > AuthorDate: 2021-06-09 10:58:04 +0000
> > Commit:     Fernando Apesteguía <fernape@FreeBSD.org>
> > CommitDate: 2021-06-30 07:57:51 +0000
> >
> >     man: Build manpages for all architectures
> ...
> > +# Link files to the parent directory
> > +.for _manpage in ${MAN}
> > +MLINKS+=${_manpage} ../${_manpage}
> > +.endfor
>
> It looks like this breaks -DNO_ROOT image building, because the
> METALOG ends up with ".." entries and makefs(8) cannot tolerate those:
>
> $ make $make_args -DNO_ROOT DESTDIR=$stagedir installworld
> installkernel distribution
> $ cd $stagedir
> $ makefs -D -B little -o label=FreeBSD_root -o version=2 ufs.part METALOG
> ...
> METALOG:22728: error: absolute path cannot contain .. component
> ...
>
> and the line in question is:
> ./usr/share/man/man4/aarch64/../armv8crypto.4.gz type=file uname=root
> gname=wheel mode=0444 size=1377 tags=package=utilities
>
> I haven't yet thought about how this could be addressed.

It seems Baptiste reported this in another reply, but somehow I don't
have that message.
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/dev-commits-src-main/2021-July/005523.html