Man-pages in snaps

[Gustavo Niemeyer]

Yeah, that's indeed not great.

We need to teach snapd to prepare a directory for mans and play with
/etc/manpath.config.

On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 5:59 AM, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> hi,
> Am Mittwoch, den 08.06.2016, 09:12 +0200 schrieb Didier Roche:
> > Le 07/06/2016 14:49, Sujeevan (svij) Vijayakumaran a écrit :
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I started creating a snap for the CLI task manager taskwarrior
> > > (https://taskwarrior.org/). This project has really good man pages.
> > > Anyway there is currently no support to access man-pages from snaps:
> > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/snappy/+bug/1575593
> > >
> > > Since it doesn't make much sense to publish an CLI app without the good
> > > man pages: Is there any other ways to make it possible that the user
> can
> > > access the man pages of a snap? The tools "task help" command doesnt
> > > help here since is doesn’t show everything.
> >
> > Hey Sujeevan,
> >
> > The desktop team indeed opened this bug, and I'm sure the snappy team
> > will respond to it quickly.
> > For now, you can't really workaround that (well, telling people to man
> > /snaps/snap_name/current/… isn't an option ;))
> >
> > However, thinking about this, you may be able to add a "man" command in
> > between (so that autocompletion show it) in your snapcraft.yaml, which
> > is executing "man /snaps/snap_name/current/…" as a workaround.
> > That way you will have (if your snap_name matches your command name):
> >
> > $ taskwarrior
> > $ taskwarrior.man
> >
> > Does this fit the bill until we get proper manpage support in snapd?
>
> there is no man command installed in in the core snap.
> you'd rather ship the man binary (and it's deps) inside your snap as
> well and make your taskwarrior.man command use it.
>
> ciao
>         oli
>
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