Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 16:13:32 +0000 From: "Ganael Laplanche" <ganael.laplanche@martymac.com> To: Frank Laszlo <laszlof@tvog.net> Cc: freebsd-ports@lists.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Man pages question... Message-ID: <20050507161014.M23784@martymac.com> In-Reply-To: <427CE6D0.4040205@tvog.net> References: <20050506173858.M111@martymac.com> <427BE4A8.60207@tvog.net> <20050507090425.M74181@martymac.com> <427CE6D0.4040205@tvog.net>
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> >>>Hi all !
> >>>
> >>>I'm updating the aMule port and having questions about manpages management...
> >>>aMule installs man pages in several languages, *BUT* each language doesn't
> >>>provide the sames pages (different names or missing ones)... How can I deal
with
> >>>this ?
> >>>
> >>>The porter's handbook don't tell too much about this... Should I hardcode each
> >>>man page in the pkg-plist ? Or do you have any hint ?
> >>>
> >>>Thank you very much,
> >>>Regards,
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Firstly, manpages do not belong in the pkg-plist. they are defined in
> >>the Makefile for the port. MAN1, MAN2, MAN3, etc.. Unless you can find
> >>a way to verify a users locale settings (im sure theres an env/make
> >>var for this) you could just default to english only, and setup hooks
> >>for alternate languages.
> >>
> >>.if defined(MAN_LANG)
> >>MAN1= foo-${MAN_LANG} bar-${MAN_LANG}
> >>MAN6= blah-${MAN_LANG}
> >>.else
> >>MAN1= foo bar
> >>MAN6= blah
> >>.endif
> >>
> >>Something like this should work. Hope that helps.
> >>
> >>-Frank Laszlo
> >>
> >>
> >
> >(CC'ed to the list...)
> >
> >Hi Frank,
> >
> >The main pb is that this way, each man page must exist in each language. Here is
> >an example :
> >
> >MANLANG= "" de es fr hu
> >MAN1+= amulecmd.1
> >MAN1+= amuleweb.1
> >
> >Here, you will automatically get this list of files "added" to pkg-plist :
> >
> >man/man1/amulecmd.1
> >man/man1/amuleweb.1
> >man/de/man1/amulecmd.1
> >man/de/man1/amuleweb.1
> >man/es/man1/amulecmd.1
> >man/es/man1/amuleweb.1
> >man/fr/man1/amulecmd.1
> >man/fr/man1/amuleweb.1
> >man/hu/man1/amulecmd.1
> >man/hu/man1/amuleweb.1
> >
> >But, what if hu doesn't provide amulecmd.1 ??? I get errors when deinstalling
> >the port... Is there any way to manage this ?
> >
> >
> >
>
> You could explicitly define the manpages for each LANG, dependong on
> how many languages are supported, this would probably be the easiest way.
>
> .if ${MANLANG} == "en"
> MAN1+= amulecmd.1 amuleweb.1
> .elseif ${MANLANG} == "de"
> MAN1+= blah.1
> .endif
>
> Hope this helps.
Hi,
this is a good solution... I found another one : I excluded fr (the lang. that
missed some pages) from MANLANG and managed installation manually with
pkg-plist... I'll try to stick to your solution which is better, IMHO.
Many thanks,
Regards,
Ganaël.
> __________________________________________________
> Frank Laszlo
> System Administrator
> The VonOstin Group
> Email: laszlof@tvog.net
> WWW: http://www.vonostingroup.com
> Mobile: 248-863-7584
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