Drew Jose (Jan 24 2024 at 11:07): Drew Jose (Jan 24 2024 at 11:07):Got inspired to finally try out the flake life after yesterday's talk. Problem is, all manpages from other packages not installed by nix (like ld) are not available anymore. Is there a package for man pages, or a setting in home manager I can use?
Srid (Jan 24 2024 at 17:26):man pages should generally be available if the package in question includes them.
Using https://github.com/juspay/nix-dev-home, I can see that both fd and ripgrep has them. Try:
$ man fd
$ man rg
Srid (Jan 24 2024 at 17:27):Incidentally, there's a module for man in home-manager: programs.main: https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/blob/master/modules/programs/man.nix
Srid (Jan 24 2024 at 17:32):Oh I misunderstood your question. You mean for packages not installed by Nix. Do you have an example?
Srid (Jan 24 2024 at 17:33):I can access ld's man page on macOS:
❯ man -d ld
-- Using pager: /usr/bin/less -s
-- Using manual sections: 1:8:2:3:3lua:n:4:5:6:7:9:l
-- Searching PATH for man directories
-- Adding /usr/local/share/man to manpath
-- Adding /usr/share/man to manpath
-- Adding /etc/profiles/per-user/srid/share/man to manpath
-- Adding /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/share/man to manpath
-- Adding /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/share/man to manpath
-- Adding /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/share/man to manpath
-- Adding default manpath entries
-- Parsing config file: /etc/man.conf
-- Using manual path: /usr/local/share/man:/usr/share/man:/etc/profiles/per-user/srid/share/man:/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/share/man:/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/share/man:/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/share/man
-- Using locale paths: en_CA.UTF-8:en.UTF-8:.
-- Using non-standard page width: 242
-- Searching for ld
-- Found manpage /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/share/man/man1/ld.1
-- Skipping catpage: non-standard page width
-- Command: cd /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/share/man && /usr/bin/zcat -f "/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/share/man/man1/ld.1" | /usr/bin/mandoc -O width=242 | /usr/bin/less -s
I get a large stderr output when invoking man -d ld:
out.txt
Srid (Jan 25 2024 at 04:35):Out of curiosity, what's the output of nix run nixpkgs#nix-health?
Srid (Jan 25 2024 at 04:36):Your output shows a lot of,
can't open directory /nix/store/rj8w6wj160k1sblhjp5fsgjbfz3si51w-home-manager-path/share/man/cat3.Z: No such file or directory
Which indicates that something's wrong
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