Man pages question...

[Frank Laszlo]

Ganael Laplanche wrote:

>Hi all !
>
>I'm updating the aMule port and having questions about manpages management...
>aMule installs man pages in several languages, *BUT* each language doesn't
>provide the sames pages (different names or missing ones)... How can I deal with
>this ?
>
>The porter's handbook don't tell too much about this... Should I hardcode each
>man page in the pkg-plist ? Or do you have any hint ?
>
>Thank you very much,
>Regards,
>
>
>  
>

Firstly, manpages do not belong in the pkg-plist. they are defined in 
the Makefile for the port. MAN1, MAN2, MAN3, etc.. Unless you can find a 
way to verify a users locale settings (im sure theres an env/make var 
for this) you could just default to english only, and setup hooks for 
alternate languages.

.if defined(MAN_LANG)
MAN1= foo-${MAN_LANG} bar-${MAN_LANG}
MAN6= blah-${MAN_LANG}
.else
MAN1= foo bar
MAN6= blah
.endif

Something like this should work. Hope that helps.

-Frank Laszlo