NetBSD Problem Report #18685

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Subject: man -a displays both
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>Number:         18685
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       man -a displays both
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    bin-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Oct 17 20:54:01 +0000 2002
>Closed-Date:    
>Last-Modified:  Sun May 29 22:55:01 +0000 2016
>Originator:     Soren S. Jorvang
>Release:        NetBSD-current as of today
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: NetBSD 1.6I
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
Man -a matches both formatted and unformatted copies of a man page.
It is only intended to show a given name in several manual sections.
>How-To-Repeat:
$ man -a man | grep SYNOPSIS
man: Formatting manual page...
     -h      Display only the ``SYNOPSIS'' lines of the requested man pages,
     -h      Display only the ``SYNOPSIS'' lines of the requested man pages,
>Fix:
Unknown.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
From: Abhinav Upadhyay <er.abhinav.upadhyay@gmail.com>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/18685
Date: Sat, 21 May 2016 14:45:13 +0530

 I think this PR can be closed now? (Now that when we don't have
 formatted man pages any more).

 -
 Abhinav

From: Valery Ushakov <uwe@stderr.spb.ru>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/18685: man -a displays both
Date: Sat, 21 May 2016 15:02:00 +0300

 On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 09:20:01 +0000, Abhinav Upadhyay wrote:

 >  I think this PR can be closed now? (Now that when we don't have
 >  formatted man pages any more).

 We don't *ship* formatted man pages any more.  Users may still opt to
 use cat pages.  Moreover, on systems that are being upgraded from
 older NetBSD releases the existing roff-formatted cat pages are kept
 intact and are only obsoleted when the source man page changes.
 E.g. I still have some 140 cat pages in cat1 of one of my older
 systems.

 Please, don't confuse the default policy we chose for the distribution
 with the range of policies users should be able to use if they choose
 so.

 -uwe

From: Kamil Rytarowski <n54@gmx.com>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/18685: man -a displays both
Date: Sat, 21 May 2016 14:23:21 +0200

 On 21.05.2016 14:05, Valery Ushakov wrote:
 > I still have some 140 cat pages in cat1 of one of my older
 >  systems.

 I'm using on all desktop machines MKCATPAGES=yes and MKINFO=no.

From: Abhinav Upadhyay <er.abhinav.upadhyay@gmail.com>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org, netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org,
 soren@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/18685: man -a displays both
Date: Sat, 21 May 2016 21:17:47 +0530

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 On Saturday 21 May 2016 05:55 PM, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR bin/18685; it has been noted by GNAT=
 S.
 >=20
 > From: Kamil Rytarowski <n54@gmx.com>
 > To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
 > Cc:=20
 > Subject: Re: bin/18685: man -a displays both
 > Date: Sat, 21 May 2016 14:23:21 +0200
 >=20
 >  On 21.05.2016 14:05, Valery Ushakov wrote:
 >  > I still have some 140 cat pages in cat1 of one of my older
 >  >  systems.
 > =20
 >  I'm using on all desktop machines MKCATPAGES=3Dyes and MKINFO=3Dno.

 Ack, we should fix it then :)

 -
 Abhinav



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From: David Holland <dholland-bugs@netbsd.org>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/18685: man -a displays both
Date: Sun, 29 May 2016 22:50:58 +0000

 On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 09:17:47PM +0530, Abhinav Upadhyay wrote:
  > Ack, we should fix it then :)

 There doesn't seem any obvious way to fix it, although I may be
 missing something in the soup of linked lists and abuse of glob_t.

 It looks like at the bottom of manual() one could filter pg->gl_pathv
 for duplicates, but knowing which things are duplicates requires logic
 that's been carefully boiled out of man(1) itself but also isn't
 available from the man.conf data.

 -- 
 David A. Holland
 dholland@netbsd.org

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