Commit 266f40a5 authored by Sergei Trofimovich's avatar Sergei Trofimovich
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man-pages: restore `$out/bin` to fix `nix-shell -p man-pages` 

`man 5 manpath` says that `PATH` is a default variable used to populate
manpages search path. Without the change the following session does not
work:

    $ nix-shell -p man-pages
    $$ man x25
    No manual entry for x25

Reported in https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/300797#issuecomment-2088956037
parent a16ec6ba

pkgs/data/documentation/man-pages/default.nix

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@@ -21,6 +21,14 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec { 


  enableParallelInstalling = true;



  postInstall = ''

    # The manpath executable looks up manpages from PATH. And this package won't

    # appear in PATH unless it has a /bin folder. Without the change

    # 'nix-shell -p man-pages' does not pull in the search paths.

    # See 'man 5 manpath' for the lookup order.

    mkdir -p $out/bin

  '';



  meta = with lib; {

    description = "Linux development manual pages";

    homepage = "https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/";