On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 05:09:15PM +0200, Marc Lehmann wrote: > Package: man-db > Version: 2.5.2-4 > Severity: normal > > > I am trying to get manpages form /opt get displayed by default. > > The manpath indeed lists it first: > > /opt/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/local/man:/opt/share/man > > there are two manpages named "AE": > > /opt/man/man3/AE.3.gz > /usr/local/man/cat3/AE.3pm.gz > > MANSECT is 1:8:2:3:5:4:6:7:9:n:l, SECTION in manpath.conf is "3 3posix 3pm > 3perl 2 1 n l 8 5 4 9 6 7" > > All this would indicate that man AE should display the first manpage > (section 3 comes before 3pm, /opt comes before /usr/local), yet "man AE" > display the /usr/local page first.
Your debug output shows that /opt/man/man3/AE.3.gz is a symlink to /opt/perl/man/man3/AE.3.gz, which suggests that this bug is a duplicate of #384301, fixed in 2.5.4. I don't suppose you could try man-db 2.5.5-3 in testing and see if that fixes it for you? Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
