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Benno Fünfstück ea14a14357 man-db: make apropos search and not just behave like whatis
Before this fix, apropos behaved exactly like whatis and looked for
an exact match. Now, it actually provides the apropos-functionality
of searching.
2016-12-30 16:58:06 +01:00

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{ stdenv, fetchurl, pkgconfig, libpipeline, db, groff, makeWrapper }:
stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
name = "man-db-2.7.5";
src = fetchurl {
url = "mirror://savannah/man-db/${name}.tar.xz";
sha256 = "056a3il7agfazac12yggcg4gf412yq34k065im0cpfxbcw6xskaw";
};
outputs = [ "out" "doc" ];
outputMan = "out"; # users will want `man man` to work
nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig makeWrapper ];
buildInputs = [ libpipeline db groff ];
postPatch = ''
substituteInPlace src/man_db.conf.in \
--replace "/usr/local/share" "/run/current-system/sw/share" \
--replace "/usr/share" "/run/current-system/sw/share"
'';
configureFlags = [
"--disable-setuid"
"--localstatedir=/var"
# Don't try /etc/man_db.conf by default, so we avoid error messages.
"--with-config-file=\${out}/etc/man_db.conf"
"--with-systemdtmpfilesdir=\${out}/lib/tmpfiles.d"
];
postInstall = ''
# apropos/whatis uses program name to decide whether to act like apropos or whatis
# (multi-call binary). `apropos` is actually just a symlink to whatis. So we need to
# make sure that we don't wrap symlinks (since that changes argv[0] to the -wrapped name)
find "$out/bin" -type f | while read file; do
wrapProgram "$file" --prefix PATH : "${groff}/bin"
done
'';
enableParallelBuilding = true;
doCheck = true;
meta = with stdenv.lib; {
homepage = "http://man-db.nongnu.org";
description = "An implementation of the standard Unix documentation system accessed using the man command";
license = licenses.gpl2;
platforms = platforms.linux;
};
}