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bug#30785: Man pages truncated, repeated
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Marius Bakke |
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bug#30785: Man pages truncated, repeated |
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Mon, 07 May 2018 00:06:47 +0200 |
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reopen 30785
Marius Bakke <address@hidden> writes:
> Marius Bakke <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Marius Bakke <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <address@hidden> writes:
>>>
>>>> Guix,
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps he's just getting old, but our man has a tendency to forget
>>>> where he was, start over from the beginning, and repeat himself several
>>>> times:
>>>>
>>>> $ guix package -i knot rofi
>>>> $ man 5 knot.conf | grep -E '^(NAME|DESCRIPTION)'
>>>> NAME
>>>> DESCRIPTION
>>>> NAME
>>>> DESCRIPTION
>>>> NAME
>>>> DESCRIPTION
>>>> NAME
>>>> DESCRIPTION
>>>> NAME
>>>> $
>>>
>>> One thing rofi.1 and knot.conf.5 have in common is that they are both
>>> unicode. Whereas working pages are ASCII.
>>
>> This ultimately turned out to be due to man-db not finding "preconv".
>>
>> The attached patches fixes it.
>
> I pushed the fix as 296551a2e9310d4a030ee49530e9367e73aaeecf.
This patch caused `man` to segfault when invoked outside `guix
environment`(!) so I reverted it for now.
To be continued...