Bug#683465: yafaray: Can't set yafaray plugins path

Tim Day timday at bottlenose.demon.co.uk
Wed Aug 1 21:25:30 UTC 2012


On Wed, 2012-08-01 at 16:44 +0200, Matteo F. Vescovi wrote:
> The correct parameter to use is -pp and:
>  $ yafaray-xml -pp /usr/lib/yafaray/plugins <path-to-file>/yafarayRender.xml
> works fine here.
> So, closing.

Ah, thanks!

In that case the real problem is with the man page which says

       -p path
           Set an alternative path for the plugins.

I (now) note that running the binary with no options does list -pp in
the resulting help text.  But it also lists a bunch of other/different
options which lead me to believe the yafaray-xml.1 man page provided in
the package is now rather obsolete/misleading... seems to be one of
those created-for-Debian ones cooked up in the absence of one being
provided by upstream.  Update, or reduce it down to simply refer to
another source of documentation ?  (Better to contain no information
than false information IMHO).

Anyway, I'll leave it at that... thanks again
Tim



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