Bug 870680

Summary:	Less is no longer the default pager given no envvars
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Ben Boeckel <fedora>
Component:	man-db	Assignee:	Peter Schiffer <pschiffe>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	18	CC:	atkac, cjwatson, mattdm, pschiffe, redhat-bugzilla, reklov, rmatos
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Description Ben Boeckel 2012-10-27 21:21:26 UTC

Description of problem:
I've recently upgraded my machines and now man is using 'more' my default. Seeing as man-db Requires: less, it should probably be the default pager anyways.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
man-db-2.6.3-1.fc19.x86_64

Comment 1 Volker Sobek 2012-10-29 11:56:01 UTC

Same here after a fresh install of F18 Beta TC6.

Comment 2 Volker Sobek 2012-10-29 13:47:14 UTC

man-db-2.6.3-1.fc18 has been unpushed from testing: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-16954/man-db-2.6.3-1.fc18

Comment 3 Matthew Miller 2012-10-29 16:42:18 UTC

Of note: old man page for man itself (looking at a Fedora 15 test system) says:

       -P pager, --pager=pager
              Specify  which  output  pager to use.  By default, man uses less
              -s.  This option overrides the $MANPAGER  environment  variable,
              [...]

but the new man page says:

       -P pager, --pager=pager
              Specify  which  output  pager to use.  By default, man uses more
              -s.  This option overrides the $MANPAGER  environment  variable,

Were we patching this before, or is this an upstream change? (If it *is* an upstream change, should we fix it by patching it back, or by setting MANPAGER by default?)

Comment 4 Peter Schiffer 2012-10-30 11:11:23 UTC

Thanks guys for report.

Matthew: This is not an upstream change, man man page is dynamically updated by the configure script.

This should be fixed now in rawhide:
man-db-2.6.3-2.fc19
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=363283

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2012-10-30 11:24:28 UTC

man-db-2.6.3-2.fc18 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 18.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-16954/man-db-2.6.3-2.fc18

Comment 6 Ben Boeckel 2012-10-30 15:06:04 UTC

The configure output says it's using less at least (will try to test F18 later today).

Comment 7 Peter Schiffer 2012-11-01 16:02:04 UTC

*** Bug 871170 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2012-11-01 18:30:34 UTC

Package man-db-2.6.3-2.fc18:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 18 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing man-db-2.6.3-2.fc18'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-16954/man-db-2.6.3-2.fc18
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2012-11-06 09:59:51 UTC

man-db-2.6.3-2.fc18 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 18.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/man-db-2.6.3-2.fc18

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2012-12-20 16:17:17 UTC

man-db-2.6.3-2.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.