384663 – etc-update and dispatch-conf ignore the PAGER variable

Bug 384663 - etc-update and dispatch-conf ignore the PAGER variable

Summary: etc-update and dispatch-conf ignore the PAGER variable

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Core - Configuration (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Portage team

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Keywords:	InVCS

Duplicates (1):	384573 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:	406003 381649 384979
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Reported:	2011-09-27 14:18 UTC by Ulrich Müller
Modified:	2012-02-27 09:52 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2011-09-27 14:18:12 UTC

The system wide setting of PAGER is ignored by etc-update and dispatch-conf. Instead, the pager is set by private config variables "pager" and "diff", respectively.

Suggestion (for etc-update, similar for dispatch-conf):
1. Use "pager" from etc-update.conf, if it is set.
   The default etc-update.conf that is shipped with portage should _not_ set
   this variable, though.
2. Fall back to ${PAGER}.
3. Fall back to cat.

Also, sys-apps/less should be removed from Portage's PDEPEND.

Comment 1 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-09-27 19:12:33 UTC

*** Bug 384573 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2011-09-28 18:42:48 UTC

This is fixed in git:

http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=374aa37ece5d67d003da358e35f0326da3cd2397
http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=3be910392f1186cacf0796e952fb5dae38b10f57

Comment 3 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2011-09-29 18:49:36 UTC

This is fixed in 2.1.10.20 and 2.2.0_alpha60.