Bug#4727: Manpages how to use them
Ok. I uninstalled the german manpages and will be waiting for a bug fix.
On Wed, 9 Oct 1996, Fabrizio Polacco wrote:
fpolacco>I also had some troubles for that and I noticed that man was using the
fpolacco>preformatted catman page (in english) if it existed.
fpolacco>
fpolacco>I had to edit /etc/manpath.config and add the row
fpolacco>
fpolacco>MANDB_MAP /usr/man/de_DE /var/catman/de_DE
fpolacco>
fpolacco>just BEFORE
fpolacco>
fpolacco>MANDB_MAP /usr/man /var/catman
fpolacco>
fpolacco>I also had to mkdir the hierarchy /var/catman/de_DE and the subdirs
fpolacco>cat1, cat2, cat3 ..., otherways user that doesn't have the de_DE set
fpolacco>will anyway get the cached german manpages :-)
fpolacco>
fpolacco>
fpolacco>I have prepared a script to do this automagically from the postinst (for
fpolacco>the manpages-it) but I was thinking that it should belong to the man
fpolacco>package. I asked Alvar Bray to pass me the man package (as he was asking
fpolacco>for someone to do that), but now he seems to be out of the Net...
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