cannot access pacman man page since update...

fflarex · 2008-01-22 02:10:08

Okay, so I just updated pacman to 3.1.1-1, and I can't access pacman's man page. I checked and found that the page does exist on my system (I think, /usr/man/man5/pacman.conf.5.gz and /usr/man/man8/pacman.8.gz both exist). When I try execute 'man pacman' it just tells me "No manual entry for pacman". Oh, and I also tried manually specifying the section.

Any idea what's going on here?

Last edited by fflarex (2008-01-22 02:10:45)

Allan · 2008-01-22 02:51:22

No problems here... Is /usr/man in your MANPATH ("echo $MANPATH")?

toofishes · 2008-01-22 03:20:16

It is actually at /usr/share/man, and that is probably not in your $MANPATH variable.

The real way to fix this is to completely unset MANPATH and let the man program do the search by itself. Simply add a line near the end of /etc/profile like "unset MANPATH" and you will be good to go.

Allan · 2008-01-22 03:25:25

toofishes wrote:

It is actually at /usr/share/man, and that is probably not in your $MANPATH variable.

Well, it should be.... But: http://www.archlinux.org/packages/files/13362/ .

Edit: It appears it only moved to /usr/share/man on x86_64 and not on i686

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fflarex · 2008-01-22 03:32:19

Why am I unsetting MANPATH instead of adding /usr/share/man/ to it?

(BTW: my MANPATH is currently /usr/man:/usr/X11R6/man)

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Allan · 2008-01-22 03:37:29

It appears that man has its own inbuilt search method for figuring out what directories man pages are in. See "man man"

zodmaner · 2008-01-23 07:38:18

I also run into this problem this morning. Glad to knows that it seems to be nothing serious.

Anyway, since only x86_64 have this 'problem', should we file a bug report on this?

Allan · 2008-01-23 08:09:44

zodmaner wrote:

Anyway, since only x86_64 have this 'problem', should we file a bug report on this?

No, it a known problem with the transition of man pages to FHS compliant locations.

zodmaner · 2008-01-23 08:29:03

Allan wrote:

zodmaner wrote:
Anyway, since only x86_64 have this 'problem', should we file a bug report on this?
No, it a known problem with the transition of man pages to FHS compliant locations.

So that means the proper location of the man page is in /usr/share/man instate of /usr/man? Does this means that the man page for i686 version of pacman will eventually be moved to /usr/share/man too?

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Allan · 2008-01-23 08:31:45

zodmaner wrote:

So that means the proper location of the man page is in /usr/share/man instate of /usr/man? Does this means that the man page for i686 version of pacman will eventually be moved to /usr/share/man too?

It will. I'm surprized it didn't at the same time.

toofishes · 2008-01-23 14:55:05

I built pacman 3.1.1 for i686 with makepkg3.0 and I meant to build the x86_64 version with makepkg3.0 as well, just for backwards compatibility reasons. Oops!

And yes, all packages will hopefully be installing man pages to /usr/share/man now as that is the place 90% of source packages installed them anyway- makepkg just "fixed" them previously and will no longer do that.

zodmaner · 2008-01-23 15:41:55

Thank you Allen, toofishes. I have added 'unset MANPATH' to end of /etc/profile like toofishes suggested and now I can access pacman's man page again.

Also, other programs, such as Brasero, have move their man page to /usr/share/man, making them also inaccessible. We might need to update the /etc/profile file soon or a lot of people will not be able to access man page of a lot of programs.

blackmariah · 2008-02-02 19:58:07

thanks for the info guys. I couldn't believe that the man page disappeared after an update.

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