Yeah, that's indeed not great. We need to teach snapd to prepare a directory for mans and play with /etc/manpath.config.
On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 5:59 AM, Oliver Grawert <[email protected]> wrote: > hi, > Am Mittwoch, den 08.06.2016, 09:12 +0200 schrieb Didier Roche: > > Le 07/06/2016 14:49, Sujeevan (svij) Vijayakumaran a écrit : > > > Hello, > > > > > > I started creating a snap for the CLI task manager taskwarrior > > > (https://taskwarrior.org/). This project has really good man pages. > > > Anyway there is currently no support to access man-pages from snaps: > > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/snappy/+bug/1575593 > > > > > > Since it doesn't make much sense to publish an CLI app without the good > > > man pages: Is there any other ways to make it possible that the user > can > > > access the man pages of a snap? The tools "task help" command doesnt > > > help here since is doesn’t show everything. > > > > Hey Sujeevan, > > > > The desktop team indeed opened this bug, and I'm sure the snappy team > > will respond to it quickly. > > For now, you can't really workaround that (well, telling people to man > > /snaps/snap_name/current/… isn't an option ;)) > > > > However, thinking about this, you may be able to add a "man" command in > > between (so that autocompletion show it) in your snapcraft.yaml, which > > is executing "man /snaps/snap_name/current/…" as a workaround. > > That way you will have (if your snap_name matches your command name): > > > > $ taskwarrior > > $ taskwarrior.man > > > > Does this fit the bill until we get proper manpage support in snapd? > > there is no man command installed in in the core snap. > you'd rather ship the man binary (and it's deps) inside your snap as > well and make your taskwarrior.man command use it. > > ciao > oli > > -- > Snapcraft mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/snapcraft > > -- gustavo @ http://niemeyer.net
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