Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 20:13:28 -0700 (MST) From: Charlie Sorsby <crs@sorsby.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Packages/Ports Message-ID: <200603050313.k253DS0g021717@sorsby.org>
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Hello, Wouldn't it be nice if, when a product (e.g. leafnode in this case) is ported to freeBSD -- not sure why this particular one needs to be ported but... -- the porter would either adhere to the man pages or would change the man pages to agree with the changes made? I've used leafnode and it's progeny for many years. I just updated to freeBSD 4.11 (no, I'm not going to update to 5.x much less 6.x) and had to re-install leafnode. Even made a partition for /var/spool/news so that it won't fill up the other spool directories. Guess what? That partition is totally empty? Why?, I asked myself. According to the man pages, that's where it should be putting the news articles. But a search reveals that they're going to a directory called /var/spool/leafnode. Is it really asking too much that software in teh packages and ports collections should agree with the manpages that come with that software? It's very frustrating to find man pages that may as well be for different programs instead of the documentation for what has been installed.
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