Re: [Man-db-devel] Easy way to update default manpath lookup paths?

[Jan Chaloupka]

Hello Saurabh,

have you tried to modify /etc/man_db.conf file? AFIAK, there is a 
MANPATH_MAP, where you can specify mappings of directories with 
binary/script/... into its corresponding path with man pages. I am not 
sure if there is a way to do this at once for each package you have, 
because there are /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/sbin mappings. Man-db is 
smart and tries to discover additional manpaths from PATH. But using a 
script, you can very quick generate a new MANPATH_MAP mappings for each 
package if a structure of those packages is similar.

If man-db takes a path from PATH (in a form path:path::...), it first 
checks if there is a MANPATH_MAP mapping, if not, it tries to test, if 
there are share/man or man subdirectories in path. It does not check the 
path for doc/man.

Regards
Jan

On 11/01/2014 04:14 PM, Saurabh T wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have several packages installed in /usr/local/package/. The bin/ under there 
> is in PATH which makes manpath look in share/man/ etc automatically. However 
> several packages have their man dir in different places, such as doc/man/. Is 
> there a quick way to tell manpath to look in doc/man in addition to what it 
> does by default (man, share/man etc), or do I have to set MANPATH for every one 
> of them?
>
> saurabh
>
>