My Gentoo Linux system has no locale(1) manual page. Fedora and Debian systems I have seen have such a manual page (I think provided by the glibc/libc6 package). On Gentoo, sys-apps/glibc does provide /usr/bin/locale, but no corresponding manual page /usr/share/man/man1/locale.1.gz. A full list of files providing manual pages in volume one of the Linux manual on Debian is as follows: /usr/share/man/man1/getent.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/iconv.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/ldd.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/locale.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/localedef.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/tzselect.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/zdump.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/catchsegv.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/glibcbug.1.gz It seems some but not all of these are provided on Gentoo by sys-apps/man-pages. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
I got the same problem with sys-libs/glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1.
those manpages are provided by other packages like sys-apps/man-pages
Obviously at the time I had sys-apps/glibc and sys-apps/man-pages install, so this man page wasn't in the default install. Provided something in the default install now provides it, no problem, but having a quick look at packages.gentoo.org suggests it's still not there. Are you sure sys-apps/man-pages now provides it? If it doesn't, that's what this bug is all about! ;-)
just because the man page isnt in man1 doesnt mean it isnt on your system what man page are you referring to exactly ?
There is a program called locale. Debian and Fedora document this with a corresponding manual page. When I reported this bug, Gentoo did not. I'm not talking about locale(5) or anything else, I am referring specifically to locale(1). I think the point was the upstream man pages source did not provide locale(1). Debian and Fedora either created this man page or pulled it from somewhere else like glibc CVS. I no longer use Gentoo, so can't double check, but if running "man 1 locale" fails, then this bug is still unresolved!
no, man-pages provides locale(1p) which is sufficient
After a bit of Googling around, I see that there is a new section, 1p, containing the POSIX man pages. http://llistes.bulma.net/pipermail/bulmailing/Week-of-Mon-20050926/072459.html It sounds like this bug is now fixed (but obviously did exist when I reported it), so marking it CLOSED and providing that information would have been more polite, but thanks anyway for taking the time to comment here. :-)
rgr
pages in question are in the man-pages package
