Re: [PATCH] gnu: wireless-tools: Install the manual pages under $out/share/man

[宋文武]

Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:

> 宋文武 <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> From f961e72823cda48406d0058902c67b6b663da791 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: =?UTF-8?q?=E5=AE=8B=E6=96=87=E6=AD=A6?= <address@hidden>
>> 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’.