[chef] Re: omnibus/rubygems and manpages

[Bryan McLellan < >]

On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Motiejus Jakštys 
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 wrote:
> the reason why I was using debian packages for Chef installation is
> man pages. Is there a way to have man pages with omnibus/rubygems
> installed?

The man pages are in the gem package, a couple workarounds:

man -M 
/opt/opscode/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-0.10.10/distro/common/man
chef-client

Note that the clojure based omnibus (before 10.12.0.rc.1) was in
/opt/opscode and the ruby based omnibus is now in /opt/chef.

You can add something like this to your man.conf:

MANPATH /opt/opscode/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/*/gems/chef*/distro/common/man

man-db 2.5.7-4 and 2.5.9-4 on Ubuntu 10.10 maverick appear to truncate
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/*/gems/chef*/distro/common/man to
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/*/gems/chef*/dis, I'm giving up on
that for now.

Bryan