[virt-tools-list] [patch] move man pages to standard /usr/local/man location

[Jason Helfman]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 11:30:55AM -0700, Eric Blake thus spake:
>On 02/20/2012 10:50 AM, Jason Helfman wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 12:35:43PM -0500, Cole Robinson thus spake:
>>> On 02/15/2012 08:22 PM, Jason Helfman wrote:
>>>> Here is a patch I have to move man installation away from share. Please
>>>> consider.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hmm, at least fedora packages install man pages to /usr/share/man/ .
>>> Debian
>>> packages install virtinst man pages similarly at least. What host OS
>>> are you
>>> using?
>>>
>>> - Cole
>>>
>>>
>>
>> FreeBSD. Maybe it is different, but I thought that man pages should be
>> installed to /usr/local for software.
>
>BSD probably does use a different default hierarchy than GNU/Linux (I
>haven't actually checked).  But this should be fine-tunable at
>configuration time, using things like ./configure --mandir=...
>That is, I think that configure should already just work for your
>situation, if you are using the options correctly: rather than having to
>patch upstream to be aware of every different distro's conventions,
>upstream should just be flexible enough that every single distro can
>customize things to match their own conventions during configure.
>
I would do that, however there is no such option for virtinst for this.
It appears to be hardcoded in setup.py.

Is there an option I can pass to python config to get it to install to a
different directory for man pages?

-jgh

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