packaging mpich2 -- conflicts with lam and file layoutb

Jeff Spaleta jspaleta at gmail.com
Tue Nov 8 18:55:24 UTC 2005


On 11/8/05, Ed Hill <ed at eh3.com> wrote:
> So, that leaves one issue -- what should be done about the man pages?
> The different MPI implementations have different man pages not only for
> the binaries but also for much of the MPI API (all the functions which
> obviously have the same names across implementations).  Can the man
> pages be somehow renamed and/or relocated?  Or should they be converted
> to html pages or totally ignored or ...?

look at how sendmail and postfix handle this
rpm -ql sendmail
for every binary that alternatives manages for sendmail/postfix the
associated manpage is also renamed. Example   newaliases from sendmail
as managed by alternatives.
sendmail package provides
/usr/bin/newaliases.sendmail
/usr/share/man/man1/newaliases.sendmail.1.gz

the alternatives system creates symlinks at
/usr/bin/newalieases
and
/usr/share/man/man1/newaliases.1.gz

the command  man newaliases.sendmail  will always give you the manual
page for sendmail's newalias. The command man newalias gives you the
manpage for whatever alternatives is configured to use for the mta.

-jef




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