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Date:      Sun, 28 Oct 2007 01:32:33 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Christian Brueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Andrew Lankford <lankfordandrew@charter.net>, stable@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /usr/share/man/man8/MAKEDEV.8
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.0.9999.0710280131220.2400@qbhto.arg>
In-Reply-To: <20071028074248.GA1511@haakonia.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
References:  <47240A15.8080305@charter.net> <20071028074248.GA1511@haakonia.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE>

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On Sun, 28 Oct 2007, Christian Brueffer wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 12:03:33AM -0400, Andrew Lankford wrote:
>>   I just noticed that /usr/share/man/man8/MAKEDEV.8 is still in the
>> FreeBSD-7 tree.  Is this intentional?  It still says that MAKEDEV is
>> located in /dev and mentions MAKEDEV.local as well.
>>
>
> Could it be that you have updated this machine from RELENG_4?  The fact
> that the file you're referring to has no .gz extention show that it's
> stale, manpages have been compressed for some time now.

A simple way to make sure you don't get bitten by this is to 'rm -r 
/usr/share/man' right before you do 'make installworld'. (Or you can mv it 
if you're paranoid, I've been deleting it for a long time now and it's 
never bitten me.)

hth,

Doug

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