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@abbeyj abbeyj commented Feb 26, 2025

The man pages aren't built anymore since cfengine/core#715 . The directory /var/cfengine/share/man does not exist as part of the package so it does not make sense to refer to it.

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The man pages aren't built anymore since cfengine/core#715 .
The directory /var/cfengine/share/man does not exist as part of the package
so it does not make sense to refer to it.
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@abbeyj thanks for the contribution! How did you find this?

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abbeyj commented Mar 4, 2025

A coworker of mine noticed that their $MANPATH was pointing at a nonexistent directory and asked why. I figured out that it was getting set by /etc/profile.d/cfengine3.sh. This file is part of the cfengine-community RPM but the man pages are not shipped as part of this RPM, or any other RPM that I can find. So I'm assuming that when the man pages were dropped, removal of this part of profile.sh was overlooked. It would be easy to miss as nothing will really be broken by leaving this in place. It will just waste a few cycles on every login and on every invocation of man.

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A coworker of mine noticed that their $MANPATH was pointing at a nonexistent directory and asked why. I figured out that it was getting set by /etc/profile.d/cfengine3.sh. This file is part of the cfengine-community RPM but the man pages are not shipped as part of this RPM, or any other RPM that I can find. So I'm assuming that when the man pages were dropped, removal of this part of profile.sh was overlooked. It would be easy to miss as nothing will really be broken by leaving this in place. It will just waste a few cycles on every login and on every invocation of man.

Very good. Thanks for the explanation. I'll take a look around and try to get this merged.

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