[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 <sperber at 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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Matthias Beyer

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