From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>
Cc: 37790@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#37790: MANPATH missing from non-default profile
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 16:54:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v9sno210.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mudzr0kd.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> (Pierre Neidhardt's message of "Thu, 17 Oct 2019 14:58:10 +0200")
Hi Pierre,
Pierre Neidhardt <mail@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’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-17 14:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-17 12:58 bug#37790: MANPATH missing from non-default profile Pierre Neidhardt
2019-10-17 14:54 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2019-10-17 15:11 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-10-17 16:17 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-10-18 8:20 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2022-03-03 6:24 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-03-03 8:32 ` zimoun
2022-03-03 14:04 ` Maxim Cournoyer
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