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FS#30987 - gziping man pages breaks 'npm help <topic>'

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by J Jordan (jjrdn) - Friday, 03 August 2012, 03:07 GMT
Last edited by Bartłomiej Piotrowski (Barthalion) - Saturday, 04 August 2012, 07:15 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Bartłomiej Piotrowski (Barthalion)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Line 60 of the PKGBUILD, the man pages are being compressed. Unfortunately npm requires the man pages to be uncompressed for the 'npm help' command to work.

See: https://github.com/isaacs/npm/blob/master/lib/help.js#L40-41

Basically npm looks for the man file without the .gz extension, and if it does not exists, it assumes that the topic does not exist and performs a search instead.

To test this, run the 'npm help install' and you will see that npm does a search for 'install' when it should open the man page. If you gunzip the install.1.gz file, this command now works.

Removing line 60 of the PKGBUILD should resolve this issue.
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Closed by  Bartłomiej Piotrowski (Barthalion)
Saturday, 04 August 2012, 07:15 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  nodejs 0.8.5-1
Comment by J Jordan (jjrdn) - Friday, 03 August 2012, 03:15 GMT
This report is for the nodejs package and the summary should begin with [nodejs 0.8.4-1]. This has been an issue since node-0.8.0-1

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