[Slackbuilds-users] [SlackBuilds] plan9port overwrites system defaults (and that isn't documented)

[Matteo Bernardini]

Hi David,

not to be polemic and also I'm not a native speaker but you said just
"replace" and, IMHO, "replace" means "replace" and the plan9port package
doesn't seem to replace anything.

as for the precedence plan9port installs a couple of /etc/profile.d files,
plan9port.csh and plan9port.sh to let its own man page get loaded (the
tools have the same names so there's no other way, short of renaming
everything): if you wish to read the manpages of the other packages
nstalled in your OS you can, in alternative:
- remove the plan9port package
- remove those files in /etc/profile.d/
- read the man pages you want specifying before the invocation of man an
empty MANPATH variable, like "MANPATH= man whatever"

Matteo

Il giorno sab 27 ago 2022 alle ore 09:14 David Chmelik <
davidnchmelik at gmail.com> ha scritto:

> I installed Slackware-stable in a chroot and kept standard
> /etc/man_db.conf and /etc/profile, including $MANPATH except, made $PS1
> show I'm in chroot, and it still happens; plan9port installs manpages
> which replace default system manpages in precedence order: I never said
> 'gets installed in /usr/man' (did you actually type 'man mount' and see
> default replaced in precedence order?).
>
> On 8/26/22 11:52 PM, Matteo Bernardini wrote:
> > FWIW I tested building it on a freshly installed slackware64-15.0 and
> > a freshly installed slackware64-current and from my test nothing gets
> > installed in /usr/man neither during the build procedure or in the
> > package contents causing overwrites when the package gets installed,
> > so I'm, again, not able to reproduce what you are reporting.
> > I suggest you, again, to test in a freshly installed environment (with
> > even no custom environment variables or aliases) before reporting.
> >
> > Matteo
> >
> > Il giorno sab 27 ago 2022 alle ore 08:23 Matteo Bernardini
> > <matteo.bernardini at gmail.com <mailto:matteo.bernardini at gmail.com>> ha
> > scritto:
> >
> >     Hi David,
> >
> >     I'll report this to the maintainer
> >
> >     Matteo
> >
> >     Il giorno sab 27 ago 2022 alle ore 08:12 <dchmelik at gmail.com
> >     <mailto:dchmelik at gmail.com>> ha scritto:
> >
> >         I installed plan9port but it replaced defaults of many UNIX-type
> >         manpages such as util-linux's 'mount'... how do I get those
> >         back?  I
> >         only wanted to try Plan 9 stuff, not have it replace default
> >         Slackware
> >         system/configuration!  Please make plan9port not do that
> >         without user
> >         consent to options.
> >
>
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