Date: Wed, 01 May 2013 14:48:33 +0100 From: Jake Smith <jake@xz.cx> To: <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Correct way to install preprocessed man pages Message-ID: <66ed19ef48919fb94a250f9aa463a76a@m.xz.cx> In-Reply-To: <3f66288e5fefbda17601f3ada8823a16@m.xz.cx> References: <3f66288e5fefbda17601f3ada8823a16@m.xz.cx>
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On 2013-05-01 14:09, Jake Smith wrote: > On 2013-05-01 14:00, Dominic Fandrey wrote: >> On 01/05/2013 14:29, Jake Smith wrote: >>> I am putting a new port together, but the source for the man pages >>> is not provided in the source tar for the package (and I can't find a >>> public repo). Instead only the "preprocessed" version is included. >> >> Do you mean it's already compressed or it's already formatted? That >> would be odd, because I think that should tie in with TERM and >> PAGER. >> So it must be considered broken by design. >> >> Regards > > It's already formatted, sorry I realise the term "preprocessed" > doesn't really mean anything. If you cat the man page file it looks > like a correctly formatted man page should. I don't have access to > the > original man page source. > > Thanks, > Jake > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Just a bit more information to help explain what I'm on about. The port is for MySQL ZRM, the source can be downloaded from http://www.zmanda.com/downloads/community/ZRM-MySQL/2.2/Source/MySQL-zrm-2.2.0.tar.gz and an example of the kind of man page I am talking about in the tar is './MySQL-zrm-2.2.0/usr/share/man/man1/mysql-zrm.1'. Thanks for your time! Jake
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