Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2021 23:13:02 -0700 From: Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com> To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com>, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>, Cy Schubert <cy@freebsd.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r569288 - head/devel/bitkeeper Message-ID: <202103270613.12R6D2gc071387@slippy.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: <20210327060528.d62mjonjx6776lsq@aniel.nours.eu> References: <202103270245.12R2j5Ww059339@repo.freebsd.org> <20210327040518.GA30283@FreeBSD.org> <202103270441.12R4f6Qq059634@slippy.cwsent.com> <20210327060528.d62mjonjx6776lsq@aniel.nours.eu>
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In message <20210327060528.d62mjonjx6776lsq@aniel.nours.eu>, Baptiste Daroussin writes: > > > --4foob2fxu5qn7xlx > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 09:41:06PM -0700, Cy Schubert wrote: > > In message <20210327040518.GA30283@FreeBSD.org>, Alexey Dokuchaev writes: > > > On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 02:45:05AM +0000, Cy Schubert wrote: > > > > New Revision: 569288 > > > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/569288 > > > >=20 > > > > Log: > > > > devel/bitkeeper: pet portlint: compress man pages > > > > =20 > > > > Compress man pages satisfying portlint. > > > > > > Well, no, we compress manpages to satisfy common sense and save some > > > disk space. :-) > > > > > > > ... > > > > - ${MAKE_CMD} DESTDIR=3D${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/bitkeeper ${INSTALL_ > TARG= > ET}) > > > > + ${MAKE_CMD} DESTDIR=3D${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/bitkeeper ${INSTALL_ > TARG= > ET});=20 > > > \ > > > > + ${GZIP_CMD} ${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/bitkeeper/man/man1/* > > > > + > > > >=20 > > > > .include <bsd.port.mk> > > > > > > Why not amend MANDIRS to include custom manpage directory so that the > > > standard `compress-man' from b.p.m could do its work? Also, you've > > > inserted superfluous linefeed there. > >=20 > > I forgot about that, thanks. I used MANPREFIX instead. > >=20 > > MANDIRS is the right thing to use, MANPREFIX is not support to be overwritt= > en > and only works by accident here. > > MANDIRS is the list of directories where we expect to lookup for manpages to > compress them. > > Second if you do install manpages in unusual location, it is expected that = > you > add this location into manpath for the users to be able to actually access = > those > manpages. As in a pkg-message advising users to add the man pages to their MANPATH. > > Somehow many ports seems to forget to do it. A good example of what to do h= > ere > is shown by the perl port which adds a perl5.conf to ETCDIR/man.d (so does = > npm) > > Best regards, > Bapt -- Cheers, Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com> FreeBSD UNIX: <cy@FreeBSD.org> Web: https://FreeBSD.org NTP: <cy@nwtime.org> Web: https://nwtime.org The need of the many outweighs the greed of the few.
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