p5-app-ack @1.960.0 provides no man page

[m@…]

I installed p5-app-ack version 1.960.0. Unfortunately, there is no man page. Is this a defect?

[mf2k (Frank Schima)]

In the future, please Cc the port maintainer(s).

[mschout@…]

Its a standard CPAN distro. If there is a away to convince macports to run it through pod2man and install a man page for it, It is beyond my level of knowledge of how macports works.

patches welcome.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

The archive on packages.macports.org has a man page at /opt/local/share/perl5.12/man/man1/ack.1pm.

[mschout@…]

I understand how macports handles multiple versions of perl now. Users are expected to set their path and manpath properly depending on their preferred version of perl. Thanks.

This ticket can be resolved (I don't have permission).

[larryv (Lawrence Velázquez)]

Replying to mschout@…:

I understand how macports handles multiple versions of perl now. Users are expected to set their path and manpath properly depending on their preferred version of perl. Thanks.

It’s funny that you think that we have a coherent way of “handling” Perl ports.

This ticket can be resolved (I don't have permission).

Not sure that this should be marked as resolved. The fact remains that there’s no way or accessing the ack manpage without providing its full path or augmenting ${MANPATH}, neither of which should be necessary.

Not saying that it’s your fault or responsibility to fix, but it’s still a problem.

[mschout@…]

I never said I agreed with the way macports handles this. All this port does is the equivalent of what you would do if you did "cpanm App::Ack". I did not make any of the decisions as to where macports installs man pages nor bin scripts for perl programs. I am not involved in macports development etc.

If you want to change the way macports handles perl installation (for all programs/modules), I would suggest you follow up on the macports dev mailing list.

Someone else please feel free to take this port over. I honestly haven't even used it in years.

Cheers!

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Fixed in r123593 by making a symlink for the manpage. Michael, based on your above comment I've removed you as maintainer.