macports installation vs 10.5.1/Xcode 3.0?

[Jeffrey Goldberg]

On Feb 6, 2008, at 12:34 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> On Feb 6, 2008, at 11:29, Lloyd Wood wrote:

>
>> - 'man port' does not return anything, although /opt/local/man/man1/ 
>> port1.gz exists
>> This suggests the postflight installer script has failed somehow in  
>> setting up .profile.
>
> This is a known problem in 1.6.0 which will be fixed in 1.6.1.

Ah.  I don't know what the "right" way of doing things is, but after  
poking around I added a file, /etc/manpaths.d/Macports the contents of  
which are

  /opt/local/share/man

which seemed to solve that problem for me.

Would that be a better approach than trying to edit one  
user's .profile ?


-j


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