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Date:      Wed, 19 Jul 2006 10:10:14 -0500
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        "[LoN]Kamikaze" <LoN_Kamikaze@gmx.de>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Sergey Matveychuk <sem@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: makewhatis from ports
Message-ID:  <20060719151014.GB32499@lor.one-eyed-alien.net>
In-Reply-To: <44BE00DA.4030901@gmx.de>
References:  <44BCF5F0.7090809@gmx.de> <44BDD5AB.3060801@FreeBSD.org> <44BE00DA.4030901@gmx.de>

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On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 11:52:26AM +0200, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote:
> Sergey Matveychuk wrote:
> > [LoN]Kamikaze wrote:
> >> I've got a Makefile where I install man pages int PREFIX/man/man1 and =
the ports system nicely compresses them, but it does not make them availabl=
e for whatis. Should I run makewhatis PREFIX/man manually or is there a way=
 this is supposed to be done? The Porter's Handbook chapter 5.9 does not me=
ntion whatis.
> >=20
> > It will be done with weekly script 320.whatis.
> > I think we have no practice to do it when a port is installed.
> >=20
>=20
> Thanks for the reply.
>=20
> That means I don't have to take care of it, still it would make more
> sense to let the ports take care of it.

If we're going to do it, setting MAN variables should cause it to happen
in bsd.port.mk rather than having it done adhoc.

-- Brooks

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