Re: [Nix-dev] Should I do something about /share/man?

[James Cook]

On 28 October 2015 at 09:56, Michael Sperber  wrote:
>
> Thanks for the quick response!
>
> Matthias Beyer  writes:
>
>> 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.
>
> Sorry for being dense - where does $out come from? I.e. how can I set
> it to something other than "" and how would that avoid this problem:

In case anyone else was tempted to respond to this thread, note that
Michael filed a bug at https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/10691
which is now closed.

James
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Re: [Nix-dev] Should I do something about /share/man?

[Michael Sperber]

Michael Sperber  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

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Regards,
Mike

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Re: [Nix-dev] Should I do something about /share/man?

[Matthias Beyer]

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  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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Kind regards,
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