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

[Richard O'Keefe]

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

> On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 23:27, Richard O'Keefe <ok at cs.otago.ac.nz> 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.