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

> On Jan 21, 2024, at 11:19 AM, Gleb Popov <arrowd@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> 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
> 

Just to share an update about this issue:
We have removed all possible occurrences of MANPREFIX from the tree.

Yes there are still some occurrences which are used as arguments to
Make and are not relevant to our use cases. At this point we are
working on removing this VARIABLE from Mk infrastructure. So I will
request the committer to be cautious and not to add it again in
existing or new ports by mistake. The rest of the changes for
GNU_CONFIGURE will be coming in the forthcoming days and looking
forward for everyone's contribution to that.

And thanks to those who have already done their part in their ports.
If you have time to fix other ports specially the ones from
non-committers feel free to commit with blanket approval as long
as it build perfectly.

In case you are brave enough to pick one here are some helpers.

Who likes to be classic:
find . -type f -d 3 -name "pkg-plist*" -exec grep -E '^man|%%man|%%/man' {} \+

Who likes to be modern and neo:
rg --type-add 'plist:pkg-plist*' -tplist '^man|%%man|%%/man'

Kind regards,
Moin(bofh@22 with all hats off)