Date: Wed, 01 May 2013 16:23:53 +0200 From: olli hauer <ohauer@gmx.de> To: Jake Smith <jake@xz.cx> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Correct way to install preprocessed man pages Message-ID: <51812579.4010507@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <66ed19ef48919fb94a250f9aa463a76a@m.xz.cx> References: <3f66288e5fefbda17601f3ada8823a16@m.xz.cx> <66ed19ef48919fb94a250f9aa463a76a@m.xz.cx>
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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.
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