On 28.01.25 at 10:21 (UTC+0100), Robin Candau wrote: > On 1/28/25 9:58 AM, Robin Candau wrote: > > On 1/28/25 9:23 AM, Allan McRae wrote: > > > > 1) Importing from the docker image is good, but it strips a lot of files > > > (i.e. all documentation). It took me ages to work out why there was no > > > man pages! I do not think a WSL install should do that. > > > > > > > I guess we could install `man-db` as part of the "first setup" script. > > Or rather, ship a modified pacman.conf accordingly in the tarball and > (re-)install / run whatever is necessary afterwards from the first setup > script. >
The problem is not a missing man-db package, but these NoExtract definitions: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/archlinux-docker/-/blob/master/pacman-conf.d-noextract.conf This calls for a separate base image for WSL rather than reinstalling everything as part of the first-setup script.
