Bug 463324 - @base installs require lzma for man to work
Summary: @base installs require lzma for man to work
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 461775
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: man
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ivana Varekova
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: F10Blocker, F10FinalBlocker
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-09-22 21:49 UTC by Will Woods
Modified: 2013-01-10 04:48 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2008-09-23 06:13:02 UTC
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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 ***


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