FS#72769 - [maxima] Broken help system in maxima

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Enrique Pérez (cachondin) - Tuesday, 16 November 2021, 22:26 GMT
Last edited by Antonio Rojas (arojas) - Wednesday, 17 November 2021, 17:27 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

Broken help system in maxima.

Additional info:
* maxima 5.45.1-4
* installed in a container created from the base-20211114.0.39041 official image at docker.io

Steps to reproduce:

Run archlinux container:
$ podman run -ti --rm archlinux:latest /bin/bash

In the container, install maxima:
# pacman -Syu && pacman -S maxima

Run maxima:
# maxima
WARNING: Maxima is unable to set up the help system.
(Details: CL-INFO::LOAD-PRIMARY-INDEX: Couldn't load
"/usr/share/info/./maxima-index.lisp":
file does not exist.)

Maxima 5.45.1 https://maxima.sourceforge.io
using Lisp SBCL 2.1.9
Distributed under the GNU Public License. See the file COPYING.
Dedicated to the memory of William Schelter.
The function bug_report() provides bug reporting information.
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Closed by  Antonio Rojas (arojas)
Wednesday, 17 November 2021, 17:27 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Antonio Rojas (arojas) - Wednesday, 17 November 2021, 07:30 GMT
That file does certainly exist in the package and it works fine on a proper installation, this must be something specific to your container setup.
Comment by Enrique Pérez (cachondin) - Wednesday, 17 November 2021, 09:29 GMT
I don't think there's anything specific to my container setup, all I did to set it up was

$ sudo pacman -S podman

I'll make sure about that in any case, later today.

I'll also check if using docker makes any difference and report back.
Comment by Enrique Pérez (cachondin) - Wednesday, 17 November 2021, 17:12 GMT
I have tried with docker, with the same result:

$ docker run -ti --rm archlinux:latest /bin/bash
...
# pacman -Syu && pacman -S maxima
...
# maxima
WARNING: Maxima is unable to set up the help system.
(Details: CL-INFO::LOAD-PRIMARY-INDEX: Couldn't load
"/usr/share/info/./maxima-index.lisp":
file does not exist.)

Maxima 5.45.1 https://maxima.sourceforge.io
using Lisp SBCL 2.1.9
Distributed under the GNU Public License. See the file COPYING.
Dedicated to the memory of William Schelter.
The function bug_report() provides bug reporting information.
(%i1)
Comment by Antonio Rojas (arojas) - Wednesday, 17 November 2021, 17:27 GMT
man and info files are not installed in Arch docker image by default, see /etc/pacman.conf

Nothing wrong with the maxima package.

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