From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 34154 invoked by alias); 15 Jul 2018 07:19:23 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 29648 invoked by uid 89); 15 Jul 2018 07:19:21 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=Hx-languages-length:1589, UD:exe, supplied, paths X-HELO: smtp-out-no.shaw.ca Received: from smtp-out-no.shaw.ca (HELO smtp-out-no.shaw.ca) (64.59.134.12) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sun, 15 Jul 2018 07:19:19 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.100] ([24.64.240.204]) by shaw.ca with ESMTP id ebJMfxSbAWppDebJNfeZFm; Sun, 15 Jul 2018 01:19:17 -0600 Reply-To: Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca Subject: Re: How to Setup Multiple System Distro Manpages To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: From: Brian Inglis Openpgp: preference=signencrypt Message-ID: <2d7c66c8-7bc4-f813-9942-ba33337dacc4@SystematicSw.ab.ca> Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2018 12:19:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2018-07/txt/msg00147.txt.bz2 On 2018-07-14 22:25, Wayne Davison wrote: > On Sat, Jul 14, 2018 at 1:51 PM Brian Inglis wrote: >> $ l /proc/cygdrive/c/usr/local/share/man/ > > Shouldn't those be under /usr/local instead of > /proc/cygdrive/c/usr/local? Typically /usr is something like > C:/cygwin64/usr, which is not the C:/usr dir you've used. Shouldn't be any problem as long as the search path is in man-db.conf or MANPATH. Under Filesystem Hierarchy Standard: - /usr/share/man/ is for system supplied package manpages; - /usr/local/share/man/ is for locally built package manpages for that system: /opt/man/ on some systems; comes *before* system paths in MANPATH; - /proc/cygdrive/c/usr/local/ is not FHS but follows those rules, where I store my system top level distros, including AST, DJGPP, Cygwin, etc., links to WSL distros' rootfs; and native, common, or shared stuff goes under subdirectories: . bin/ native user .exe .cmd .reg; . etc/ configs .ini etc.; . lib/ support or addins .dll .exe; . sbin/ native system admin .exe .cmd .reg; . share/ data, docs, etc. including: ~ man/ misc and old stuff, like alt.sysadmin.recovery (**) and funny manpages (**NSFW); *after* system paths in MANPATH; ~ cat1/ cmd.exe internal and external command and native Windows utilities help; . src/ native utility and package sources e.g. from net or github; where these are not part of a distro, and if I wipe out a distro, they remain; similar to, and could become, a network mount instead of local storage. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple