$ cat /etc/env.d/50python-docs PYTHONDOCS=/usr/share/doc/python-docs-2.4.4/html/lib $ python Python 2.4.4 (#1, Jun 28 2007, 03:03:50) [GCC 4.1.2 (Gentoo 4.1.2)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> help('if') Sorry, topic and keyword documentation is not available because the Python HTML documentation files could not be found. If you have installed them, please set the environment variable PYTHONDOCS to indicate their location. --------------- maybe need set PYTHONDOCS to /usr/share/doc/python-docs-2.4.4/html/ ?? --------------- [I] dev-lang/python Installed versions: 2.3.5-r3(2.3)(18:06:55 13.05.2007)(-berkdb -bootstrap -build -doc gdbm -ipv6 ncurses -nocxx readline ssl -tk -ucs2) 2.4.4-r4(2.4)(03:06:01 28.06.2007)(-berkdb -bootstrap -build doc examples gdbm -ipv6 ncurses -nocxx -nothreads readline ssl -tk -ucs2)
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With the proposed PYTHONDOCS it works. Any reason why not changing this?
Created attachment 134892 [details, diff] Patch to dev-python/python-docs-2.5.1.ebuild Maybe gentoo devs need an explicit patch to fix it? ;-) ...So I attach one. ;-)
confirming the issue. Being a python illiterate I have no clue what's right or wrong (bug 151695 or this one). Maybe some stuff just isn't installed into the right location? I just think either one approach should be chosen. As it stands currently: python-docs-2.4.4.ebuild html/lib python-docs-2.5.1.ebuild html/lib python-docs-2.5.ebuild html/ which is not consistent.
(but only the setting from 2.5 works for me: I can run `pydoc shlex` and `pydoc if ` only when my PYTHONDOCS is set to /usr/share/doc/python-docs-2.4.3/html.)
Still broken in 2.5.2 because of the extra "/lib" attached to the PYTHONDOCS env var.
It works for me in 2.6.2
