cppman -m true fails
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Description
Similar to #127 but isn't fixed
I did
touch ~/.manpath
cppman -m true
mandb
warnings
Purging old database entries in /home/jx/.local/man...
Processing manual pages under /home/jx/.local/man...
Processing manual pages under /home/jx/.local/man/cat1...
Purging old database entries in /home/jx/.local/share/man...
Processing manual pages under /home/jx/.local/share/man...
Processing manual pages under /home/jx/.local/share/man/cat1...
Processing manual pages under /home/jx/.cache/cppman...
Updating index cache for path `/home/jx/.cache/cppman/manindex'. Wait...mandb: warning: /home/jx/.cache/cppman/manindex/CACHEDIR.TAG: ignoring bogus filename
mandb: warning: /home/jx/.cache/cppman/manindex/cat3: ignoring bogus filename
mandb: warning: /home/jx/.cache/cppman/manindex/442742: ignoring bogus filename
Updating index cache for path `/home/jx/.cache/cppman/man3'. Wait...done.
Checking for stray cats under /home/jx/.cache/cppman...
Checking for stray cats under /home/jx/.cache/cppman/manindex...
Processing manual pages under /home/jx/.cache/cppman/cppreference.com...
Processing manual pages under /home/jx/.cache/cppman/cplusplus.com...
2 man subdirectories contained newer manual pages.
2527 manual pages were added.
0 stray cats were added.
0 old database entries were purged.
btw $XDG_CACHE_HOME is blank for me
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Research direction
Reproduce the issue with touch ~/.manpath, cppman -m true, and mandb, then compare the behavior with issue #127. Inspect how cppman uses the cache paths when $XDG_CACHE_HOME is blank; done means mandb no longer reports bogus filenames for the generated cache directories.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100