Porteus-v3.2.2 bug reports here

[donald]

I had the same problem with some man files (nvidia)
I could read them if i did a "export MANPATH=/usr/share/man/" for example.

But because this is only a temporary solution, i added the needed path in:
/etc/profile at the "export MANPATH=" line

[port]

yes, that's a solution, thanks to point it out. But the bug itself is man seems not to follow the settings in its own config file etc.conf. You shouldn't have to use that workaround because man should read properly etc.conf and update MANPATH consistently

[donald]

Hello port

Out of curiosity i commented out the MANPATH line in /etc/profile > log out/in >
"echo $MANPATH" shows nothing now > copied some man files (folder) into /usr/local/share, and BINGO they were displayed.
(and also the nvidia man files which were not displayed previously)

Please test by yourself - It looks like the MANPATH setting in /etc/profile is the culprit.

[port]

Out of curiosity i commented out the MANPATH line in /etc/profile > log out/in >
"echo $MANPATH" shows nothing now > copied some man files (folder) into /usr/local/share, and BINGO they were displayed.
(and also the nvidia man files which were not displayed previously)

Please test by yourself - It looks like the MANPATH setting in /etc/profile is the culprit.

bingo! culprit located! thanks donald! now man reads properly the man.conf file and sets up MANPATH according to it.

Program man has a priority when looking for man pages and one of the highest one is environment var MANPATH, if it is set it will use whatever it points to. Since MANPATH was being setting up in /etc/profile it doesn't matter what /etc/man.conf established, even when man was correctly reading /etc/man.conf and adding paths and maps stated there, as there was a MANPATH env var stablished man only used that

so, with current /etc/profile setting up MANPATH you always has the path for man pages hardcoded:

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guest@porteus:~$ /usr/bin/man -w
/usr/local/man:/usr/man

while commenting it out you get what is stablished in /etc/man.conf:

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guest@porteus:~$ /usr/bin/man -w
/opt/jdk/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/X11R6/man

Probably there would be a good reason to setting MANPATH hardcoded in /etc/profile but I cannot see it, the right place to set man paths and maps is /etc/man.conf so I recommend to comment or remove the setting of MANPATH in /etc/profile, unless somebody give a reason not to do it

[lukaluki]

exFAT is still not supported by default ? I am not a pro linux user but want to use exFAT format because a USB Stick can also be used in Android devices. Bur Porteus can not boot exFAT sticks.