Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell development in Mac OS X after Gatekeeper

On 20/02/2012, at 5:53 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote:

On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 23:27, Richard O'Keefe wrote: Now *that's* annoying. It turns out that the xattr command is *there*, but 'man xattr' is completely silent. There is nothing for it in /usr/share/man/man1 . I had been using my own command to do the equivalent of xattr -d.

Bzuh?

haral:23276 Z$ pkgutil --file-info /usr/share/man/man1/xattr.1 volume: / path: /usr/share/man/man1/xattr.1

pkgid: com.apple.pkg.BSD pkg-version: 10.7.0.1.1.1293150744 install-time: 1310114676 uid: 0 gid: 0 mode: 644

m% uname -a Darwin <deleted> 10.8.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.8.0: Tue Jun 7 16:33:36 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1504.15.3~1/RELEASE_I386 i386 m% ls -l /usr/share/man/man1/xa* -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 5427 14 Jul 2009 /usr/share/man/man1/xar.1 -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 3759 19 May 2009 /usr/share/man/man1/xargs.1.gz m% pkgutil --file-info /usr/share/man/man1/xattr.1 2012-02-21 10:25:36.201 pkgutil[7023:903] PackageKit: *** Missing bundle identifier: /Library/Receipts/NeoOffice-2.2.2-Intel.pkg 2012-02-21 10:25:36.222 pkgutil[7023:903] PackageKit: *** Missing bundle identifier: /Library/Receipts/NeoOffice-3.0.1-Intel.pkg volume: / path: /usr/share/man/man1/xattr.1 m% Since you are running Lion and I am not, it isn't _that_ surprising that we see different things. It remains surprising that in 10.6.8 the xattr command is there but its manual page is not. I've also checked a laptop running the same release of Mac OS X.