Bug 109612
| Summary: | Manuals that live in ARCH specific subdirectories are not accessible by man(1) | ||
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| Product: | Documentation | Reporter: | Mark Diekhans <markd> |
| Component: | Books & Articles | Assignee: | Gordon Tetlow <gordon> |
| Status: | Closed FIXED | ||
| Severity: | Affects Only Me | ||
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | Latest | ||
| Hardware: | Any | ||
| OS: | Any | ||
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Description
Mark Diekhans
2007-02-27 17:20:04 UTC
Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-doc->remko This is a real problem with all stuff under specific subdirectories (/man4/i386 for example) since they are not 'man*' probably. I will try to investigate this before I will go on holiday but perhaps it will take a little to resolve this. State Changed
From-To: open->feedback
Which files exactly are being installed into ARCH specific subdirectories in
/usr/share/{man,cat}? I'm running HEAD on AMD64 and i don't see any files being
installed into {man,cat}4/amd64 or {man,cat}8/amd64. If this is also the case
for the other archs i suggest all ARCH specific subdirectories can be removed
from mtree.
However I checked the new man shell script's behavior regarding this issue and
it doesn't look in any ARCH specific subdirectory for manual pages (not even the
ARCH 'uname -m' reports).
State Changed From-To: feedback->patched Feeedback received privately by Remko. In fact quite a few arch specific manual pages get installed (amd64 being an exception). The new man script comes with the -m switch, which lets people specify the arch and machine. Also two envars are being supported: $ARCH_MACHINE and $MACHINE. So e.g. running FreeBSD on amd64, users can do 'man -m i386:i386' or set the two envars previously mentioned to i386 in order to tell 'man' to look for i386 specific manual page directories. Responsible Changed From-To: remko->gordon Reassign to Gordon since his new man tool seems to fix this. This might be an MFC reminder, or can be closed if it is not going to be MFC'ed. State Changed From-To: patched->closed I don't have any intentions of MFC'ing the new man. I'm not sure what the bug is here. The GNU man also honors ARCH_MACHINE and MACHINE, but it could be this PR predates that change. |
