- adds support for man-pages-overrides

man-db-2.6.3-overrides.patch

@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+diff -up man-db-2.6.3/src/manp.c.overrides man-db-2.6.3/src/manp.c
+--- man-db-2.6.3/src/manp.c.overrides	2012-10-24 16:52:35.134486439 +0200
++++ man-db-2.6.3/src/manp.c	2012-10-24 16:59:28.300037133 +0200
+@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@
+ #include <ctype.h>
+ #include <sys/types.h>
+ #include <sys/stat.h>
++#include <sys/param.h>
+ #include <assert.h>
+ #include <errno.h>
+ #include <dirent.h>
+@@ -95,6 +96,9 @@ static struct list *namestore, *tailstor
+ #define MANPATH_MAP	 0
+ #define MANDATORY	 1
+ 
++/* Subdirectory of MANPATH entries searched for man pages before the directory itself. */
++#define OVERRIDES_DIR "/overrides"
++
+ /* DIRLIST list[MAXDIRS]; */
+ static char *tmplist[MAXDIRS];
+ 
+@@ -933,6 +937,7 @@ char *get_manpath_from_path (const char
+ 	char **lp;
+ 	char *end;
+ 	char *manpathlist;
++	char overrides[MAXPATHLEN];
+ 	struct list *list;
+ 
+ 	tmppath = xstrdup (path);
+@@ -960,6 +965,9 @@ char *get_manpath_from_path (const char
+ 		if (mandir_list) {
+ 			debug ("is in the config file\n");
+ 			while (mandir_list) {
++				strcpy(overrides, mandir_list->cont);
++				strcat(overrides, OVERRIDES_DIR);
++				add_dir_to_list (tmplist, overrides);
+ 				add_dir_to_list (tmplist, mandir_list->cont);
+ 				mandir_list = iterate_over_list
+ 					(mandir_list, p, MANPATH_MAP);
+@@ -978,6 +986,9 @@ char *get_manpath_from_path (const char
+ 				       "../share/man, or share/man "
+ 				       "subdirectory\n");
+ 	
++				strcpy(overrides, t);
++				strcat(overrides, OVERRIDES_DIR);
++				add_dir_to_list (tmplist, overrides);
+ 				add_dir_to_list (tmplist, t);
+ 				free (t);
+ 		 	} else
+@@ -993,8 +1004,12 @@ char *get_manpath_from_path (const char
+ 		debug ("\nadding mandatory man directories\n\n");
+ 
+ 		for (list = namestore; list; list = list->next)
+-			if (list->flag == MANDATORY) 
++			if (list->flag == MANDATORY) {
++				strcpy(overrides, list->key);
++				strcat(overrides, OVERRIDES_DIR);
++				add_dir_to_list (tmplist, overrides);
+ 				add_dir_to_list (tmplist, list->key);
++			}
+ 	}
+ 
+ 	len = 0;

man-db.spec

@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ Patch2: man-db-2.6.1-so-links.patch
 Patch3: man-db-2.6.1-locale-fallback.patch
 # resolves: #841431
 Patch4: man-db-2.6.2-invalid-cache.patch
+# adds support for man-pages-overrides
+Patch5: man-db-2.6.3-overrides.patch
 
 Obsoletes: man < 2.0
 Provides: man = %{version}
@@ -50,6 +52,7 @@ manual pages.
 %patch2 -p1 -b .so-links
 %patch3 -p1 -b .locale-fallback
 %patch4 -p1 -b .invalid-cache
+%patch5 -p1 -b .overrides
 
 %build
 %configure \
@@ -120,12 +123,13 @@ install -D -p -m 0644 %{SOURCE2} $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/etc/sysconfig/man-db
 %lang(it)   %{_datadir}/man/it/man*/*
 
 %changelog
-* Thu Oct 18 2012 Peter Schiffer <pschiffe@redhat.com> - 2.6.3-1
+* Wed Oct 24 2012 Peter Schiffer <pschiffe@redhat.com> - 2.6.3-1
 - resolves: #858577
   updated to 2.6.3
 - cleaned .spec file
 - resolves: #855632
   fixed SIGABRT crash
+- adds support for man-pages-overrides
 
 * Tue Jul 31 2012 Peter Schiffer <pschiffe@redhat.com> - 2.6.2-5
 - resolves: #841431