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

[Aaron Griffin]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Andreas Radke <a.radke at arcor.de> wrote:
> 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.

Hmm, we ship modified config files for a lot of things (the "sane
defaults" rationale). This one seems cryptic enough to boggle most
people. It's not like there's a "turn_color_on = yes" setting... it's
a command line arg to groff, which most people haven't heard of... to
me it seems more beneficial to do it at the package level and we end
up with groff output as close to what we got with the 'man' package as
we can get.

I'll log a bug with upstream for this one