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Date:      Mon, 20 May 2002 10:25:25 +0300
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        parv <parv@pair.com>
Cc:        f-stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: double man entries
Message-ID:  <20020520072525.GC12963@sunbay.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020520033500.GA27906@moo.holy.cow>
References:  <20020520033500.GA27906@moo.holy.cow>

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On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 11:35:00PM -0400, parv wrote:
> after upgrading to 4-stable-2002.05.17.16.15.01 (4.6-rc) -- from
> 4-stable-2002.05.02.08.43.44 (4.6-prerelease) -- i see double
> entries for the same section of a man page, as now there exist
> compressed (old) & uncompressed (new) versions....
>=20
> -r--r--r--   2 root     wheel         999 May 19 12:13 /usr/share/man/man=
1/apropos.1
> -r--r--r--   1 root     wheel         605 Jan 20  2001 /usr/share/man/man=
1/apropos.1.gz
> -r--r--r--   1 root     wheel       30586 May 19 12:12 /usr/share/man/man=
1/ar.1
> -r--r--r--   1 root     wheel       10137 Aug 15  2001 /usr/share/man/man=
1/ar.1.gz
> -r--r--r--   1 root     wheel        8458 May 19 12:18 /usr/share/man/man=
1/asn1parse.1
> -r--r--r--   1 root     wheel        3657 May  3 17:32 /usr/share/man/man=
1/asn1parse.1.gz
> -r--r--r--   4 root     wheel        5650 May 19 12:15 /usr/share/man/man=
1/at.1
> -r--r--r--   1 root     wheel        2368 Mar 17 01:36 /usr/share/man/man=
1/at.1.gz
> -r--r--r--   2 root     wheel        3188 May 19 12:15 /usr/share/man/man=
1/basename.1
> -r--r--r--   1 root     wheel        1582 Sep 20  2001 /usr/share/man/man=
1/basename.1.gz
> -r--r--r--   1 root     wheel       34468 May 19 12:12 /usr/share/man/man=
1/bc.1
> -r--r--r--   1 root     wheel       11774 Mar  8  2001 /usr/share/man/man=
1/bc.1.gz
>=20
> ...there are total of 4298 entries like above.  i didn't encounter
> any doublets w/ 4.6-prerelease during regular use of man, only
> now in 4.6-rc.
>=20
> "man -a -w ar" gives...
>=20
> /usr/share/man/cat1/ar.1.gz (source: /usr/share/man/man1/ar.1)
> /usr/share/man/cat1/ar.1.gz (source: /usr/share/man/man1/ar.1.gz)
> /usr/share/man/man1aout/ar.1aout
> /usr/share/man/man1aout/ar.1aout.gz
> /usr/share/man/cat4/i386/ar.4.gz (source: /usr/share/man/man4/i386/ar.4)
> /usr/share/man/cat4/i386/ar.4.gz (source: /usr/share/man/man4/i386/ar.4.g=
z)
> /usr/share/man/man4/ar.4.gz
> /usr/share/man/man5/ar.5
> /usr/share/man/man5/ar.5.gz
>=20
>=20
> ..."man 4 ar" (yes, that is w/o "-a" option) produces ar(4) page twice.
>=20
>=20
> below is part of /etc/make.conf which may be of some siginificance...
>=20
> INSTALL=3D        install -C
> NOMANCOMPRESS=3D  false
>=20
>=20
> ...any ideas what went wrong and/or how to avoid it in future?
>=20
NOMANCOMPRESS, if defined (whether it's "false" or not), means "do
not compress manual pages".


Cheers,
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Ruslan Ermilov		Sysadmin and DBA,
ru@sunbay.com		Sunbay Software AG,
ru@FreeBSD.org		FreeBSD committer,
+380.652.512.251	Simferopol, Ukraine

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