SUMMARY : man pages

From: jean.schuller <schuller_at_sbgal4.in2p3.fr>
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 11:25:08 +0100 (GMT+0100)

        I solved my problem by copying man pages (share/man, dt/man)
        from the CD. I needed also nroff, tlb and neqn.

Many thanks for the great help to :
> Peter Stern :
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My guess is that sum of these subsets are mandatory, so it doesn't
include them in the menu of choices. Try to use the -x flag of
setld to extract just those subsets corresponding to your menu choices
25-30.
        
Dr. Tom Blinn:
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When you use setld -D, you MUST have the full kit loaded already, or all of
the stuff that's "mandatory" will get loaded automatically; that's how setld
works. You are not the first person to get bitten by this.

What you need to do is either have /usr/share/man be a symlink to a directory
on the other disk where you want the reference pages loaded, or more likely
to succeed, mount the new disk where you want the references pages loaded on
top of /usr/share/man (and make sure you also take care of the /usr/dt
reference page hierarchy if you're going to load that as well). You can look
at the various "MAN" subsets to see the paths that will be used to load files
from the subsets; as long as the subset doesn't actually deliver a directory
but only delivers the files (I think that's how the MAN subsets are set up),
the trick of replacing the target directory with a symlink will probably work
OK (setld will not refuse to load the software); when a directory is listed in
the subset inventory and you've got a symlink on the system in its place, then
setld will typically refuse to load the subset. Mounting a file system onto a
directory usually does work. There are ways (with NFS) to mount parts of some
other hierarchy on a particular place in your local file system, but it's not
the most efficient approach. Using AdvFS, you can create multiple filesets to
be mounted on various places to hold stuff, and they can all live in a common
domain and share the disk space, but it's not as efficient as UFS for lots of
small files.

Dr Alan Rollow:
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I've never heard of the -D option working reliably. Just mount
your manual page partition at the correct place in the file
system tree and install the manual pages normally. I think
they end up in /usr/share/man.

Girish Phadke:
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Installation of the setld product can not be targeted else were unless you want
to modify instctrl file
man pages default installation is in /usr/share/man & /usr/dt/man
So If you would like the man some were else just mount this directory on other
disk.

or shift the directory after your regular installation wherever you want and
add MANPATH= diectory names
or put logical link which will be some un neccsary overhead.


        Once more, many thanks to all who helped me and
 
        ... Merry Christmas and Happy New Year ...


        JEAN

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