Re: Call for help: moving manpages to share/man

On 21/01/24 18:13, Rodrigo Osorio wrote:
> On 21/01/24 17:44, Rainer Hurling wrote:
>> Am 21.01.24 um 11:19 schrieb Gleb Popov:
>>> Ahoy there fellow porters!
>>>
>>> portmgr@ is currently working on switching the directory into which
>>> man pages are installed from "${PREFIX}/man" to "${PREFIX}/share/man".
>>> It is quite a tedious process, as you might imagine. More than that,
>>> changing the default for a given build system instantly breaks all
>>> ports that use it, which means that this task can't be done
>>> incrementally in the main branch.
>>>
>>> I've created a branch [1] in my own fork that switches mandir for the
>>> autotools build system and am inviting everyone to collaborate on
>>> that, until all the fallout is fixed. I'm asking port maintainers to
>>> check if they have ports with the "GNU_CONFIGURE=yes" knob, as these
>>> are most likely broken by the switch. Moin kindly prepared a list of
>>> affected ports along with their maintainers (thanks Moin!) [2]
>>>
>>> In the most simple case you'll only need to change the pkg-plist, as I
>>> did in this example commit [3]. Make sure to bump PORTREVISION as
>>> we're altering the package's contents by this change. Also put the
>>> "Approved by: portmgr (blanket)" tag in the commit message, as the
>>> whole initiative was approved by the portmgr@ group.
>>>
>>> If you want to collaborate either create a pull request on GH against
>>> my branch or just send me a git format-patch output for your change.
>>>
>>> Thanks beforehand to everyone going to help!
>>>
>>> [1] https://github.com/arrowd/freebsd-ports/tree/autotools-mandir
>>> [2] http://arrowd.name/manprefix-fail.maintainer.txt
>>> [3] 
>>> https://github.com/arrowd/freebsd-ports/commit/cc288e9b742cd54640e06737334dd57d88d45f6d
>>>
>>
>>
>> Ahoy, dear skipper!
>>
>> Thank you for all the work you and others put into this change.
>>
>> I am represented in Moin's list with three ports (maintainer 
>> rhurlin), all three of which are 'pure' Python ports:
>>
>> - astro/py-ephem
>> - textproc/py-python-lsp-jsonrpc
>> - textproc/py-whatthepatch  (waiting for an update of setuptools)
>>
>> All three ports do not generate any man pages. So I don't understand 
>> why they are included in the list. Or is it different if autotools is 
>> used?
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any clarification.
>>
>> Best wishes from a crew member,
>> Rainer
>>
> Hi,
>
> Just a reminder :p
> you can also obtain an updated list of ports to be updated using the 
> following command
>
> pkg provides "^/usr/local/man"
>
> Cheers
> -- Rodrigo
>
Hi,

Just to clarify my point and avoid misunderstandings, to run the command 
you must install the pkg-provides plugin.
The provide database is built once a day based on the packages generated 
by our build system, so when I said
"an updated list" I mean you can use this command to track the amount of 
ports to convert.

All the best
-- rodrigo