Date: Sat, 08 Feb 1997 17:47:59 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Robert N Watson <rnw+@andrew.cmu.edu> Cc: freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3.0-970124-SNAP: man page search order Message-ID: <8842.855452879@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 08 Feb 1997 14:50:49 EST." <8mzBYNO00YVp0P4FIt@andrew.cmu.edu>
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> 1. Installing packages from ftp2.freebsd.org sometimes fails for > specific packages -- xemacs in this case. This may just be a result of > this being a SNAP. Also, the sysinstall.debug output is weird (lots of > "failure"'s?) I think that pkg_add still has a problem with the xemacs package; something for me to fix. The other packages should be happy. > 2. The real thing is this. The man page search order finds all of the c > programming calls after the TCL ones, so "man bind" returns TCL's bind, > not the syscall bind. This is inconvenient if one is a C programmer not > a TCL programmer. I assume I can fix this with /etc/manpath.config, but > this doesn't seem like the right default setting? Yes, I *hate* that too! I shall look into whatever needs to be done to fix this one. Jordan
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