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authoremixa-d <85313564+emixa-d@users.noreply.github.com>2021-10-06 22:19:41 +0000
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Add "MINETEST_MOD_PATH" environment variable (#11515)
This adds an environment variable MINETEST_MOD_PATH. When it exists, Minetest will look there for mods in addition to ~/.minetest/mods/.
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-rw-r--r--doc/menu_lua_api.txt8
-rw-r--r--doc/minetest.63
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/menu_lua_api.txt b/doc/menu_lua_api.txt
index f4dfff261..b4b6eaba2 100644
--- a/doc/menu_lua_api.txt
+++ b/doc/menu_lua_api.txt
@@ -219,7 +219,13 @@ Package - content which is downloadable from the content db, may or may not be i
* returns path to global user data,
the directory that contains user-provided mods, worlds, games, and texture packs.
* core.get_modpath() (possible in async calls)
- * returns path to global modpath
+ * returns path to global modpath, where mods can be installed
+* core.get_modpaths() (possible in async calls)
+ * returns list of paths to global modpaths, where mods have been installed
+
+ The difference with "core.get_modpath" is that no mods should be installed in these
+ directories by Minetest -- they might be read-only.
+
* core.get_clientmodpath() (possible in async calls)
* returns path to global client-side modpath
* core.get_gamepath() (possible in async calls)
diff --git a/doc/minetest.6 b/doc/minetest.6
index bac70fe1a..42ed1a45f 100644
--- a/doc/minetest.6
+++ b/doc/minetest.6
@@ -119,6 +119,9 @@ Display an interactive terminal over ncurses during execution.
.TP
.B MINETEST_SUBGAME_PATH
Colon delimited list of directories to search for games.
+.TP
+.B MINETEST_MOD_PATH
+Colon delimited list of directories to search for mods.
.SH BUGS
Please report all bugs at https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues.