mommy fails tests when installed with `yay` about mommy HOT 6 CLOSED

mommy v1.2.2 has now been released, so since this version doesn't check the manual pages during installation, you should no longer encounter this bug.

however, running mommy --help or man mommy may not necessarily work. if you encounter any problems with that, please let me know :-)

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Everything works as expected now! ❤️

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strange, I cannot reproduce this error. after running yay mommy and selecting the right package, installation succeeds as expected. with which command exactly did you install mommy?

the errors you have indicate that the manual pages were not installed correctly, or that you do not have the man command available in sh. do you already have man-db installed? man-db is currently a requirement, but should be installed automatically by yay if you don't have it. (see also #41) man-db should be temporarily installed during the check process, so it's somewhat surprising to me that the tests fail 🤔

if you do have man-db installed, then perhaps you modified your system so that packages are installed in a non-standard location? if so, the man page may end up not being placed on the man path, and man does not work. do you have any idea if that might be the case?

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I've spent some more time investigating this after I encountered the bug myself while running archlinux in a docker environment. in my case, this was caused by NoExtract = usr/share/man/* in my pacman-conf. so you can temporarily work around this by disabling that part of the config, but i'll look into detecting whether the directory is not extracted and disabling the tests if that is the case

could you maybe run pacman-conf | grep "usr/share/man" and tell me if that command has any output?

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Unfortunately, NoExtract is empty in my setup. (I.e., pacman-conf | grep "usr/share/man" returns nothing). Otherwise my pacman setup also has all settings set to their default values.

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Strange. Luckily, I expect the installation problem to be solved with the next release of mommy, since the build procedure and check function will have been rewritten completely. However, I think man mommy and mommy --help will not work on your system, so I'd still like to figure out what the cause of this is. Does the directory /usr/share/man/man1 exist?

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