Fwd: petname snap bug

[Dustin Kirkland]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 2:38 PM, Jamie Strandboge <jamie at canonical.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-02-17 at 10:35 -0600, Dustin Kirkland wrote:
>> Is there something special I need to do to have the "man" binary
>> available to me?
>>
>> My snap ships a manpage in /snap/petname/share/man/man1/petname.1
>>
>> Perhaps too cleverly, when you run /snap/bin/petname --help, my
>> program tries to "exec man petname", and that fails:
>>
>> $ /snap/bin/petname -h
>> /snap/petname/9/bin/petname: 49: exec: man: not found
>>
>> Please advise.  Do I need to include man as a part or something?
>>
> Charles gave the bug for this,

Great, thanks: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snappy/+bug/1575593

The bug is almost a year old, affects 17 people, and is Triaged and
priority Low.  I'm glad it's getting a little more attention!

> For something that should work today, I might mention that if you stage-packages
> man so that you have it in your snap, 'petname -h' could invoke
> '$SNAP/path/to/man $SNAP/path/to/page'.
>
> You could also dump the man page output and save that in your snap and have
> 'petname -h' 'less /snap/path/to/dumped/page'. I've used this command for that
> sort of thing:
>
> $ PAGER=cat LANG='en_US.UTF-8' MANWIDTH=80 man --warnings \
>   -E UTF-8 -l ./path/to/page > ./path/to/dumped/page

Thanks for the suggestions, I can make these work.