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comment:1 by , 23 years ago
| Summary: | shadow password suite installs polish man-pages to /usr/share/man/pl → Packages install non-english man pages in /usr/share/man |
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comment:2 by , 23 years ago
| Owner: | changed from to |
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| Priority: | low → normal |
| qa_contact: | gerard@linuxfromscratch.org → lfs-book@linuxfromscratch.org |
comment:3 by , 23 years ago
| Owner: | changed from to |
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| Status: | new → assigned |
by , 23 years ago
| Attachment: | shadow-20001016.patch added |
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This is the updated patch. It fixes both the man page problem and the previous problem which the previous patch fixed.
comment:4 by , 23 years ago
| Resolution: | → later |
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| Status: | assigned → closed |
There is an unforeseen problem. We can't clearly force the user into not installing foreign language man pages. But if we permit the installation of the man pages, then all the english pages (currently man[1-8]) would need to be in a subdirectory "en". The FHS dictates that and explains it in great lenght in section 4.11.5, version 2.2-beta. And it is a Good Thing(TM), since man will use these directories in case the localization environment variables are set.
So we should change every package and make it use /usr/share/man/en instead, for the man dir. Or, much more simply, we could move man* into en after the installation is over. Yes, I think that would be the best answer. But then we would need to somehow tell man to go into en. Dunno how to do that, but i know it's easy. man was designed to operate like that.
One last thing: the shadow patch (attachment 1) must not be applied.
comment:5 by , 23 years ago
What are we going to do about this? Move all man pages to /usr/share/man/en, and has anybody figured out yet how to tell man to look in /usr/share/man/<language>?
comment:6 by , 23 years ago
| Resolution: | later |
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| Status: | closed → reopened |
comment:7 by , 23 years ago
| Owner: | changed from to |
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| Status: | reopened → new |
comment:8 by , 23 years ago
| Owner: | changed from to |
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| Status: | new → assigned |
I'm working on this (doing a cvs build and figuring out how to get packages to install man pages to /usr/share/man/en) I think that although this is more convoluted, it's probably the best solution. I think we should at least try it. I'll also figure out how to configure man to use those dirs while I'm at it.
comment:9 by , 23 years ago
I've been playing with this for a while now. We can make all the packages (I think) install man pages to /usr/share/man/en/man*
The thing is, this'll require an option to be added to ./configure or a sed command for each package. This seems to be a bit excessive. Maybe we could use Simon's suggestion to move /usr/share/man/man* to /usr/share/man/en/man* instead?
We'll also have to add a comment for when users install their own packages. I'm looking at the config issue for man at the moment.
To be honest, I'm doubtful about the value of this change compared to the gains. For starters, not a great number of the base LFS packages come with foreign manual pages anyway.
Comments? I think this should go to lfs-discuss for discussion.
comment:10 by , 23 years ago
Yes, let's move it to lfs-discuss. I also agree it's probably not worth the effort so my vote is to just drop the matter.
comment:11 by , 23 years ago
| Resolution: | → later |
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| Status: | assigned → closed |
Nobody seems to care much about this so we'll drop it for now. Maybe we can come back to it in the future.
comment:13 by , 23 years ago
| Resolution: | later |
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| Status: | closed → reopened |
Reopening but closing (and change it's resolution to WONTFIX instead of LATER)
comment:14 by , 23 years ago
| Resolution: | → wontfix |
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| Status: | reopened → closed |
nobody seemed interested in it, too much work, not worth the gain
Shadow password suite is one of them, net-tools is another. FHS compliance notes are probably needed as well to make that all proper.