GNU bug report logs - #37790
MANPATH missing from non-default profile

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Pierre Neidhardt <mail <at> ambrevar.xyz>

Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 12:59:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 49353

Done: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Pierre Neidhardt <mail <at> ambrevar.xyz>
Cc: 37790 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#37790: MANPATH missing from non-default profile
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 16:54:51 +0200

Hi Pierre,

Pierre Neidhardt <mail <at> ambrevar.xyz> skribis:

> `man` fails to find man pages from non-default profiles.
> Indeed, MANPATH is set in /etc/profile to
>
> export MANPATH=\
> $HOME/.guix-profile/share/man\
> :/run/current-system/profile/share/man
>
> I believe that each profile should set MANPATH in their own etc/profile.

As usual, ‘MANPATH’ is only defined when ‘man-db’ is also present in the
profile, since ‘MANPATH’ “belongs” to ‘man-db’.

HTH!

Ludo’.
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