Bug 186042

Summary:	dev-util/mercurial installs scripts outside of $PATH
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Cristi Magherusan <cristi.magherusan>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Krzysztof Pawlik (RETIRED) <nelchael>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	radek
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Cristi Magherusan 2007-07-20 23:10:35 UTC

Hello,
I'm using mercurial (hg) and it seems some of its files, even binaries get installed into /usr/share/doc/mercurial-<VERSION>/contrib/
For example hgk, which is a tk script for commit history browsing gets installed there too, and since "hg view" needs it in $PATH, i have to make a symlink every time i'm updating mercurial.There are other binary tools there too, and since they're binaries they don't belong there.
It would be nice if the install script would put the binaries somewhere in $PATH, or at list make the symlinks instead of the user.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Andrew Ross (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-08-05 03:34:39 UTC

As contrib(uted) scripts which aren't an official part of the upstream package (despite inclusion in the tarball), I'm going to leave most of them in /usr/share - especially those which are single-use utilities (e.g. darcs2hg) and/or require additional programs (e.g. buildrpm, git-viz/*).

Since hgdiff, hg-relink simplemerge and hg-ssh are self-contained and potentially useful, I'll have them installed to /usr/bin when mercurial is next revbumped. rewrite-log is completely undocumented, so will stay in /usr/share for now.

hgk will be controlled by the tk USE flag, but will take some time, as I don't have any Gentoo systems with X on them.

Comment 2 Bill Binder 2007-08-26 11:28:59 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)

> For example hgk, which is a tk script for commit history browsing gets
> installed there too, and since "hg view" needs it in $PATH, i have to make a
> symlink every time i'm updating mercurial.

I don't think you need a symlink for hgk, just add its path into your ~/.hgrc file:

[hgk]
path=/usr/share/doc/mercurial-0.9.4/contrib/hgk

Comment 3 Łukasz Damentko (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-05-27 13:32:40 UTC

aross was retired (#139633), reassigning remaining bugs.

Comment 4 Krzysztof Pawlik (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-06-09 19:30:04 UTC

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Install additional tools into bin directory, see bug #186042.
(Portage version: 2.1.5.4)
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