Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 15:47:23 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> To: Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: man(1) oddity - was: HEADS UP: bzip2(1) compression for manpages... Message-ID: <20030516124723.GE2047@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <20030502120132.D60788-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au> References: <20030502014308.GA92123@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20030502120132.D60788-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au>
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--Rgf3q3z9SdmXC6oT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 12:09:02PM +1000, Andy Farkas wrote: > > On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 04:13:07AM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > This is just an announcement that I'm going to add bzip2(1) > > > support to man(1) and makewhatis(1) (catman(1) already has > > > it), and then switch the default compression method from > > > gzip(1) to bzip2(1), for manpages, Groff and Texinfo docs. > > > (The latest 4.5 texinfo supports bzip2.) >=20 > As a normal user, the "Formatting page, please wait..." message never > appears, whereas it does for root. >=20 > IMHO this is a mild POLA violation. >=20 For a normal user, man(1) no longer creates the catpages. This is still being revised (by me). Cheers, --=20 Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age --Rgf3q3z9SdmXC6oT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+xN3aUkv4P6juNwoRAvAsAJ9SfD2GVh4Jg4ipG9OaDe48o219AgCggzyA mxWkH5z8VIfJYCfwuHGvTvc= =Hpci -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Rgf3q3z9SdmXC6oT--
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