Man files are supposed to be in the store as well.

You should create a

    $out/share/man/

and move the man files of a program to this location.

On 28-10-2015 17:28:58, Michael Sperber wrote:
> 
> Michael Sperber <sper...@deinprogramm.de> writes:
> 
> > The installation of many Nix packages for me ends in this:
> >
> > moving /nix/store/qhpf938zw5mbrlvazpnlkvd9z3fmvyyq-adv_cmds-153/share/man 
> > to /share/man
> > mv: cannot move 
> > '/nix/store/qhpf938zw5mbrlvazpnlkvd9z3fmvyyq-adv_cmds-153/share/man' to 
> > '/share/man/man': Permission denied
> > ... aborting the install
> >
> > (This is on Mac OS X.)
> >
> > I think I saw this before, but it was always ignored.
> >
> > Should I create /share/man and make it writable?
> 
> Well, I just did that, but then the *second* package that tries to do
> this fails with:
> 
> mv: cannot move 
> '/nix/store/ag4ni27jvlnbdnklbpb1xv4cqchxd30s-expat-2.1.0/share/man' to 
> '/share/man/man': Directory not empty
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Mike
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