Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 08:38:30 -0800 From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: Tijl Coosemans <tijl@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>, ports@freebsd.org, arch@freebsd.org, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: manpath change for ports ? Message-ID: <20170310163830.GA46344@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20170310170308.65d903d8@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> References: <20170306235610.cmpxk27jhoafel6l@ivaldir.net> <86mvcvojzt.fsf@desk.des.no> <2721378.xr7MGKcqvA@ralph.baldwin.cx> <86a88tmpe8.fsf@desk.des.no> <20170310170308.65d903d8@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org>
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On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 05:03:08PM +0100, Tijl Coosemans wrote: > On Fri, 10 Mar 2017 10:50:39 +0100 Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@des.no> wrote: > > John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> writes: > >> I wouldn't even mind if we had both /usr/local/man and /usr/local/share/man > >> so long as our default MANPATH included both if that means applying fewer > >> patches to ports. > > > > The default MANPATH is constructed dynamically from PATH: > > > > 1. From each component of the user's PATH for the first of: > > - pathname/man > > - pathname/MAN > > - If pathname ends with /bin: pathname/../man > > Note: Special logic exists to make /bin and /usr/bin look in > > /usr/share/man for manual files. > > > > If we change this to: > > > > 1. From each component of the user's PATH for the first of: > > - pathname/man > > - pathname/MAN > > - If pathname ends with /bin or /sbin: pathname/../man and > > pathname/../share/man > > > > we wouldn't need any "special logic", but I really don't like the idea > > of having different ports installing man pages in different locations. > > I grepped the ports tree and found nearly 5700 ports. That's a lot to > change all at once but it may be doable. It depends on how much fallout > there is in the exp-run. ln -s /usr/local/share/man /usr/local/man should cause the manpages to land where you want. Then port maintainers can sweep ports/ to allow for the removal of symlink. On a side note, it is unfortunate that one cannot set the environmental variable MANPATH as documented without either a mysterious vanishing of man pages or an idiotic warning appear with each invocation of man, apropos, ... -- Steve 20161221 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbCHE-hONow
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