From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 1 14:23:57 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 830F54B0 for ; Wed, 1 May 2013 14:23:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ohauer@gmx.de) Received: from mout.gmx.net (mout.gmx.net [212.227.17.20]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2550611C9 for ; Wed, 1 May 2013 14:23:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([10.1.76.1]) by mrigmx.server.lan (mrigmx001) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0LfUkZ-1UDbKB1BAf-00p51i for ; Wed, 01 May 2013 16:23:50 +0200 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 01 May 2013 14:23:50 -0000 Received: from p578be941.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO [192.168.0.100]) [87.139.233.65] by mail.gmx.net (mp001) with SMTP; 01 May 2013 16:23:50 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1956535 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX190JbxKTUx0acG+/n0GeEKgYzCJhnQztry/yoI0Jq WifVwfFkEckZHb Message-ID: <51812579.4010507@gmx.de> Date: Wed, 01 May 2013 16:23:53 +0200 From: olli hauer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130328 Thunderbird/17.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jake Smith Subject: Re: Correct way to install preprocessed man pages References: <3f66288e5fefbda17601f3ada8823a16@m.xz.cx> <66ed19ef48919fb94a250f9aa463a76a@m.xz.cx> In-Reply-To: <66ed19ef48919fb94a250f9aa463a76a@m.xz.cx> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 May 2013 14:23:57 -0000 On 2013-05-01 15:48, Jake Smith wrote: > On 2013-05-01 14:09, Jake Smith wrote: >> On 2013-05-01 14:00, Dominic Fandrey wrote: >>> On 01/05/2013 14:29, Jake Smith wrote: >>>> I am putting a new port together, but the source for the man pages is not provided in the source tar for the package (and I can't find a public repo). Instead only the "preprocessed" version is included. >>> >>> Do you mean it's already compressed or it's already formatted? That >>> would be odd, because I think that should tie in with TERM and PAGER. >>> So it must be considered broken by design. >>> >>> Regards >> >> It's already formatted, sorry I realise the term "preprocessed" >> doesn't really mean anything. If you cat the man page file it looks >> like a correctly formatted man page should. I don't have access to the >> original man page source. >> >> Thanks, >> Jake >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > Just a bit more information to help explain what I'm on about. > > The port is for MySQL ZRM, the source can be downloaded from http://www.zmanda.com/downloads/community/ZRM-MySQL/2.2/Source/MySQL-zrm-2.2.0.tar.gz and an example of the kind of man page I am talking about in the tar is './MySQL-zrm-2.2.0/usr/share/man/man1/mysql-zrm.1'. > > Thanks for your time! > Jake Hm, the files are catman(1) pages not man(1) pages. I suspect the only way is to ask upstream to provide the man pages.