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

[Aaron Griffin]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

Hmmm do these settings look sane as default settings:

DEFINE  troff   groff -mandoc -Tutf8 -c
DEFINE  nroff   nroff -mandoc -Tutf8 -c

We used to use -Tps (which seems silly from reading the groff man
page) and the -c flags used to exist as well