Bug 463324

Summary:	@base installs require lzma for man to work
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Will Woods <wwoods>
Component:	man	Assignee:	Ivana Varekova <varekova>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	rawhide	CC:	dcantrell, katzj
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Description Will Woods 2008-09-22 21:49:11 UTC

man now supports lzma-compressed manpages. That's fine, but lzma is not in @base, so installing just @base results in a system which cannot run man.

Suggest adding lzma to the @base group.

Comment 1 Jesse Keating 2008-09-22 22:28:05 UTC

Are all man pages made in lzma now, or only some?  Are you getting a crash or an error?  Would this be better solved by a package requirement rather than a comps forcing?

Comment 2 Will Woods 2008-09-22 22:57:04 UTC

AFAICT man saves its cached pages in lzma format now. Or it tries to.

The strange part is - this only happens when I'm logged in at the console. The error is:

sh: /usr/bin/lzma: No such file or directory
Error executing formatting or display command.
System command (cd /usr/share/man && (echo ".pl 1100i"; /usr/bin/gunzip -c '/usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz'; echo ".\\\""; echo ".pl \n(nlu+10") | /usr/bin/gtbl | /usr/bin/nroff -c -mandoc 2>/dev/null | /usr/bin/lzma > /var/cache/man/cat1/ls.1.lzma) exited with status 32512.

Yes, you could also fix this by making man require lzma.

Comment 3 Jesse Keating 2008-09-22 23:10:14 UTC

Fixing it with requires seems like the right thing to do, especially for people who install and fiddle with groups or whatnot.  If man is going to use it, it needs to require it.

Comment 4 Ivana Varekova 2008-09-23 06:13:02 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 461775 ***