From: 宋文武 <iyzsong@gmail.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: wireless-tools: Install the manual pages under $out/share/man
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 11:24:43 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ppc5xtdw.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87iohxwx4f.fsf@gnu.org>
Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
> 宋文武 <iyzsong@gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> From f961e72823cda48406d0058902c67b6b663da791 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: =?UTF-8?q?=E5=AE=8B=E6=96=87=E6=AD=A6?= <iyzsong@gmail.com>
>> Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 12:52:59 +0800
>> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: wireless-tools: Install the manual pages under
>> $out/share/man.
>>
>> * gnu/packages/linux.scm (wireless-tools)[origin]: Add snippet.
>
> Thanks, applied.
>
> It may be a good time to get commit access. Could you create an account
> on Savannah and let me know?
Thanks for the trust!
I have some problems to get the account activated now,
once done, I will ping you :)
>
>> We could get rid of MANPATH, if all man pages install to $out/share/man.
>
> Yes, it’s always been the goal to uniformly use share/man.
>
> In core-updates, I’d like to add a build phase at the very end that
> checks a few things like that, and aborts on failure. WDYT?
Yes, sounds great.
>
>> Assume a suitable PATH is set, try:
>> $ guix package -r wireless-tools
>> $ env MANPATH= manpath
>> Get:
>> /run/current-system/profile/man:/home/iyzsong/.guix-profile/share/man
>> It's because wireless-tools having man pages in $out/man, after apply
>> this patch, we should get:
>> /run/current-system/profile/share/man:/home/iyzsong/.guix-profile/share/man
>>
>> Then `man' will just work even without MANPATH.
>
> Indeed. I didn’t know MANPATH was unneeded in this case.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-30 3:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-29 5:06 [PATCH] gnu: wireless-tools: Install the manual pages under $out/share/man 宋文武
2014-11-29 20:49 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-11-30 3:24 ` 宋文武 [this message]
2014-11-30 16:36 ` Ludovic Courtès
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