macports installation vs 10.5.1/Xcode 3.0?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Feb 6, 2008, at 18:47, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:

> 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 ?

That discussion has also already been had at length on the list. I  
believe that strategy is being looked at in MacPorts trunk.