Re: Small subset of man pages available after install from Redhat-compatible repo

From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
To: Linus Hicks <linus(dot)hicks(at)highstreetit(dot)com>, "PostgreSQL Bugs (pgsql-bugs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org)" <pgsql-bugs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Small subset of man pages available after install from Redhat-compatible repo
Date: 2023-06-22 06:39:13
Message-ID: c827387b19a9f74d82a49414571d9a39cfb382e6.camel@cybertec.at
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On Wed, 2023-06-21 at 21:16 +0000, Linus Hicks wrote:
> I followed the instructions from here: https://www.postgresql.org/download/linux/redhat/ to install version 15 on OL 8.8, with some additions:
>
> postgresql15-libs-15.3-2PGDG.rhel8.x86_64
> postgresql15-pltcl-15.3-2PGDG.rhel8.x86_64
> postgresql15-15.3-2PGDG.rhel8.x86_64
> postgresql15-docs-15.3-2PGDG.rhel8.x86_64
> postgresql15-server-15.3-2PGDG.rhel8.x86_64
>
> Then running “man initdb” returns “No manual entry for initdb” but the manpage exists here: /usr/pgsql-15/share/man/man1
>
> I was expecting all of the man pages provided in the RPM packages to be available without having to provide the full path.
> Is this a bug in packaging or is my expectation incorrect?

Everything is fine. Just put /usr/pgsql-15/share/man on your MANPATH.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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