[arch-dev-public] [signoff] man-db 2.5.3-2 replacing man

[Aaron Griffin]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Eric Bélanger <snowmaniscool at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Eric Bélanger <snowmaniscool at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Andreas Radke <a.radke at arcor.de> wrote:
>>>>> Am Thu, 19 Feb 2009 07:27:01 -0600
>>>>> schrieb Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com>:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Don't Andy's and Jan's words here contradict with regard to creating
>>>>>> a man user?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -Dan
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> This was my mistake. I had cp'ed the install file from the community
>>>>> pkg and missed make my changes before the commit.
>>>>>
>>>>> So a -2 pkg is now up for signoff. I removed the unwanted man user
>>>>> creation. Added a msg for anybody upgrading from 2.5.3-1 and earlier to
>>>>> remove the user and change permission on the db dir. The cronjob runs in
>>>>> quiet mode now. Added a backup array for its config file. Now it should
>>>>> be ready to move.
>>>>>
>>>>> Anything else to improve?
>>>>>
>>>>> -Andy
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I haven't tried the -2 pkg yet , but I noticed that with man-db I
>>>> don't have coloured man pages anymore when using 'less' as the pager.
>>>> To get coloured man pages, I need to use 'most' as pager.
>>>> Is there anyone else who has this problem? It might be caused by a
>>>> lack of a feature in man-db (I can't see why it would be the case) or
>>>> a config issue. I haven't spent much time looking it up as it's a
>>>> minor thing and works with 'most' although I would prefer 'less'.
>>>>
>>>> Eric
>>>>
>>>
>>> http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9130#comment31955
>>>
>>> If man-db becomes the default man reader, should we use most as the
>>> default pager, or export GROFF_NO_SGR=1 by default?
>>
>> Can you find what this affects? Added a profile.d script to export
>> this might not be a bad idea, but it's not exactly a good idea either.
>> most as a default pager is probably not a good idea.
>>
>
> I was thinking the same about using a profile script. Maybe that
> variable can be set in the config file: etc/man_db.conf

Adding -c to the TROFF and NROFF settings in man_db.conf fixes this