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

[Andreas Radke]

Am Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:11:02 -0600
schrieb Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com>:

> 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
> 

I'd like to leave the package plain upstream. Maybe we can put this
into a wiki page where we also write down how man-pages have to be
encoded and where to put.

-Andy