From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 19 15:13: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 758) id 4207214E3E; Fri, 19 Nov 1999 15:13:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33A1A1CD73D; Fri, 19 Nov 1999 15:13:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@hub.freebsd.org) Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 15:13:00 -0800 (PST) From: Kris Kennaway To: Wes Peters Cc: andrew@ugh.net.au, Daniel O'Connor , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Making a port kit In-Reply-To: <383576E9.CD5A32D2@softweyr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Wes Peters wrote: > Actually, taking the MAN8= line out of the port Makefile fixed the problem. > Thanks for the hints. You need to have manpages referenced by MAN? variables instead of just installed directly: the reason is that they may or may not be compressed at the time the package is deinstalled, and so you get left with manpage turds in the filesystem. Didn't someone already point out your problem was just a mistyped path? Kris ---- Cthulhu for President! For when you're tired of choosing the _lesser_ of two evils.. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message