[DebianGIS] Re: [GRASS-dev] GRASS: wrong directory settings in g.manual

[Glynn Clements <glynn@gclements.plus.com>]

Moritz Lennert wrote:

> This is probably a specific debian problem, but sending it to the 
> grass-dev list as well, just in case.
> 
> g.manual fails on debian since the directory settings are wrong.
> 
> In g.manual there is
> 
> GRASS_DOC_BASE="$GISBASE"
> 
> and html and man pages are looked for under:
> 
> $GRASS_DOC_BASE"/docs/html/$1.html
> and
> $GRASS_DOC_BASE"/man/man1/$1.1
> 
> However, in debian/grass-doc.install there are the following lines, 
> installing the docs into more LFS-compliant (I assume) directories:
> 
> usr/lib/grass/docs/html usr/share/doc/grass-doc
> usr/lib/grass/man/man1 usr/share/man
> 
> Thus g.manual fails.
> 
> So, should this be changed directly in the GRASS tree, or is this a 
> debian patch issue ?

Only the Debian patch should be changed.

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Glynn Clements <glynn@gclements.plus.com>