Please prevent installing man5/passwd.5 of the man-pages package.

[yuksiy]

( This ticket has been re-posted revised my following post.
​http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-dev/2016-February/070822.html )

In ​LFS 7.8 "6.25. Shadow-4.2.1", passwd.5 of the shadow package overwrites already installed passwd.5 of the man-pages package.

However, it's hard for LFS readers to judge whether this overwriting is intended or not, because there is no supplementary explanation about overwriting in this page.

Therefore, I suggest installation of passwd.5 of the man-pages package is prevented.

If this suggestion is not acceptable, I think at least it would be better to add supplementary explanation that overwriting passwd.5 is intended.

As far as I have found in the BLFS book at present, there are following pages that contain the supplementary explanation about overwriting files.
(Find in page with the keyword "overwrite".)
​http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/7.8/postlfs/gnupg.html
​http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/7.8/basicnet/traceroute.html
​http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/7.8/basicnet/whois.html
​http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/7.8/x/gtk3.html

[bdubbs@…]

It looks like the man-pages version is better. Add to the shadow page:

find -name passwd.5 -delete

Not tested.

[bdubbs@…]

Fixed at revision 11026.