Bugzilla Bug 218669

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This change breaks app-text/pinfo (output is from etc-update):

--- /etc/man.conf       2008-04-21 15:29:26.000000000 +0200
+++ /etc/._cfg0000_man.conf     2008-04-21 15:31:21.000000000 +0200
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@
 # causes problems, add the -c option to TROFF, NROFF, JNROFF.
 #
 TROFF          /usr/bin/groff -Tps -mandoc
-NROFF          /usr/bin/nroff -Tascii -c -mandoc
+NROFF          /usr/bin/nroff -mandoc
 JNROFF         /usr/bin/groff -Tnippon -mandocj
 EQN            /usr/bin/geqn -Tps
 NEQN           /usr/bin/geqn -Tlatin1

as pinfo doesn't expect or handle the ANSI escape codes.

(In reply to comment #1)
> This change breaks app-text/pinfo (output is from etc-update):
> 
> --- /etc/man.conf       2008-04-21 15:29:26.000000000 +0200
> +++ /etc/._cfg0000_man.conf     2008-04-21 15:31:21.000000000 +0200

No, sorry, my fault - it wasn't /this/ particular change. :|

pinfo is broken then ... file a bug report about it

Stable on alpha.

===AMD64 AT REPORT===

Installation[OK]
No test
Functionality: [OK]

>>> /usr/bin/man, [works] tested the following:
$ man man 
$ man ls 
$ man s 2 fork 
$ man -a fork

>>> /usr/bin/man2html: [works]
$ bzcat /usr/share/man/man1/aircrack-ng.1.bz2 | man2html

>>> /usr/bin/man2dvi: [works]
$ man2dvi calloc 

>>> /usr/sbin/makewhatis && whatis [works] after running makewhatis tested with:
$ whatis fork
fork                 (2)  - create a child process
fork                 (3p)  - create a new process
$ whatis malloc
malloc               (3)  - Allocate and free dynamic memory
malloc               (3p)  - a memory allocator

Portage 2.1.4.4 (default-linux/amd64/2007.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0,
2.6.24-gentoo-r4 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.24-gentoo-r4 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+
Timestamp of tree: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 11:30:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p17-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r9
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.26
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.23-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf
/etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="collision-protect distlocks metadata-transfer multilib-strict
parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict test unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LINGUAS="en es"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles
--exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow X a52 acl acpi alsa amd64 berkdb bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt
dbus dga dri dvdr ffmpeg flac gdbm glitz gmp gnome gpm gtk hal iconv ipv6
isdnlog ithreads jpeg lcms libnotify mad midi mmx mp3 mudflap ncurses network
nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp pam pcre perl png pppd python readline
reflection sdl session spell spl sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg tcpd
theora threads tiff truetype unicode v4l vorbis x264 xcomposite xorg
xscreensaver xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="emu10k1"
ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file
hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route
share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias
authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default
authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs
dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter
headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation
rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias"
ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse joystick" KERNEL="linux"
LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses
text" LINGUAS="en es" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia none"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL,
LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS,
PORTDIR_OVERLAY

ppc64 stable

Stable for HPPA.

x86 stabl

amd64 stable, thanks Victor for testing.

ppc stable

Sparc stable.

ia64 stable