Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 17:03:08 +0100 From: Tijl Coosemans <tijl@FreeBSD.org> To: Dag-Erling =?UTF-8?B?U23DuHJncmF2?= <des@des.no> Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, ports@freebsd.org, arch@freebsd.org, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: manpath change for ports ? Message-ID: <20170310170308.65d903d8@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> In-Reply-To: <86a88tmpe8.fsf@desk.des.no> References: <20170306235610.cmpxk27jhoafel6l@ivaldir.net> <86mvcvojzt.fsf@desk.des.no> <2721378.xr7MGKcqvA@ralph.baldwin.cx> <86a88tmpe8.fsf@desk.des.no>
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On Fri, 10 Mar 2017 10:50:39 +0100 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav <des@des.no> wr= ote: > 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. =20 >=20 > The default MANPATH is constructed dynamically from PATH: >=20 > 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. >=20 > If we change this to: >=20 > 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 >=20 > 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. Ports are installed into a staging area now where files can be moved to another location. So a post-install make target could be added that moves the man pages to share/man if necessary (and prints a warning to maintainers in that case). Then all pkg-plist and PLIST_FILES need to be modified (with sed) and PORTREVISION needs to be bumped (also scripted). The same could be done to move info and pkgconfig files.
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