> I guess since know one has responded to this question concerning a > clean way for an RPM to alter the MANPATH (i.e. alter it non-destructively > and using a safe mechanism to do so) says that there is not such a > clean method (please someone correct me if I am wrong). If this is the case > then perhaps a later RedHat release could consider this. I can think of a > few ways of acomplishing this, but probably the simplest would be to > do something like HP does, which I mentioned in the P.S. of my previous > email: > > P.S. on HP/UX the system MANPATH was constructed from the file > /etc/MANPATH which contained a : delimited list of directories, > which made it very easy for depots (HP rpms) to alter the MANPATH, > and was very necessary in an architecture where most every package > gets its own directory under /opt. > > The key problem I see with this method is that I don't believe gnu man suppor > ts > this (again I would like to be wrong), but what I think could easily be done > is I'm sure it does, but I can't be bothered reading the man page. I'm sure reading the man page will provide all the answers. I'd not undo the changes when the rpm is removed though - it just might be possible that something else wants the same change. I recommend using grep to test whether the change is actually needed, than maybe ed to implement it. Plenty of man pages to read there;-) > add a command that at startup would alter the man.config to contain the > the MANPATH found in this file. On the other hand, another approach that > may be better would be to provide command on a redhat system that would allow > one to add a MANPATH statement to the man.config. This thing command would > be fully aware of the man.config syntax, so that it could: > > - add the MANPATH in clean way. > - make sure that it had not already been added. > > I guess you would have in the %pre r %post section of your spec file somethin > g > like: > > add2manpath directory_to_add > > > Food for thought...james > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-devel-list mailing list > Redhat-devel-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list > -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition. ============================== If you don't like being told you're wrong, be right!
