man can't seem to load manpages installed by modular X packages into /usr/share/man/man[0-9]x when they are not called with a specific section. they do show up with man -k, and can be loaded by using a section name however. ie. dirtyepic ~ $ man -k radeon radeon (4x) - ATI RADEON video driver dirtyepic ~ $ man radeon No manual entry for radeon dirtyepic ~ $ man 4x radeon [loads manpage] this can be fixed just by adding the sections to MANSECT in /etc/man.conf --- /etc/man.conf-orig 2005-11-14 00:09:48.000000000 -0600 +++ /etc/man.conf 2005-11-14 00:17:09.000000000 -0600 @@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ # Default manual sections (and order) to search if -S is not specified # and the MANSECT environment variable is not set. # -MANSECT 1:1p:8:2:3:3p:4:5:6:7:9:0p:tcl:n:l:p:o +MANSECT 1:1p:1x:8:2:3:3p:3x:4:4x:5:5x:6:7:9:0p:tcl:n:l:p:o # # Default options to use when man is invoked without options # This is mainly for the benefit of those that think -a should be the default i don't know if these are all the sections that are needed, they're just the ones i had on my system.
thats because [0-9]x are not valid categories atm and you didnt update your man.conf to declare them as such x11 team needs to decide what they want me to do before i update man spyderous: Fedora updates their man.conf MANSECT variable to include [0-9]x as i suggested on irc
(In reply to comment #1) > thats because [0-9]x are not valid categories atm and you didnt update > your man.conf to declare them as such > > x11 team needs to decide what they want me to do before i update man > > spyderous: Fedora updates their man.conf MANSECT variable to include > [0-9]x as i suggested on irc OK, please go with that.
1.6b-r2 searches [1-8]x then
