Bug 255282 – sys-apps/man-1.6f-r3 MANPAGER regression

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Greg Fitzgerald 2009-01-17 16:53:14 UTC]

Seems that in the latest revision of man it no longer reads the MANPAGER variable from your shell. Tried clean shells for both bash and zsh.Running man -P$MANPAGER man works. 

I downgraded to the latest stable version and it was resolved.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install latest unstable sys-apps/man
2. MANPAGER="most" man man
3. profit?

Actual Results:  
Ignores pager listed in MANPAGER.

Expected Results:  
Use the pager listed in MANPAGER variable.

[Comment 1 Wormo (RETIRED) 2009-01-17 23:24:04 UTC]

Thanks for reporting this issue. Please post your 'emerge --info' as well, because it can be useful to maintainers trying to reproduce problems.

[Comment 2 Greg Fitzgerald 2009-01-17 23:45:23 UTC]

Portage 2.1.6.6 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r1, 2.6.28 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.28-x86_64-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_D_CPU_3.00GHz-with-glibc2.2.5
Timestamp of tree: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 21:25:01 +0000
ccache version 2.4 [disabled]
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p48
dev-lang/python:     2.5.2-r8
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r8
dev-util/cmake:      2.6.2-r1
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0
sys-apps/openrc:     0.4.2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.3.2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.19
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.6a
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.28-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LC_ALL="en_US.UTF8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
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"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/paludis/repositories/mpd /var/paludis/repositories/gregf"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="acl amd64 berkdb bzip2 cli cracklib crypt cups dri fortran gdbm gpm iconv ipv6 isdnlog midi mmx mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly openmp pam pcre perl pppd python readline reflection session spl sse sse2 ssl sysfs tcpd unicode xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul 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="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev glint i810 intel mach64 mga neomagic nv r128 radeon savage sis tdfx trident vesa vga via vmware voodoo"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 3 SpanKY 2009-01-19 02:28:49 UTC]

please post exact version numbers rather than saying "stable" and "unstable"

the difference between man-1.6f-r2 and man-1.6f-r3 does nothing with environment, only the default cat compressor

this works fine for me on 1.6f-r[23]:
MANPAGER=more man man

[Comment 4 Greg Fitzgerald 2009-01-19 02:37:17 UTC]

Not sure what I had wrong the other day but trying sys-apps/man-1.6f-r3 again it now works. Report is invalid.

[Comment 5 SpanKY 2009-01-19 03:39:39 UTC]

maybe it was the "most" vs "more" ?  the "most" app usually isnt installed ...