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Date:      Mon, 4 Mar 2002 10:02:36 +0100
From:      Nicolas Rachinsky <list@rachinsky.de>
To:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Changes to man page in 4.5-R?
Message-ID:  <20020304090236.GA70885@pc5.abc>
In-Reply-To: <20020116072926.GV6073@windriver.com>
References:  <20020116072926.GV6073@windriver.com>

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* On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 11:29:26PM -0800,
* Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote:
>   This means man(1) can no longer create system catpages on a
>   regular user's behalf.  (It is still able to if the user has
>   write permissions to the directory holding catpages, e.g.,
>   user's own manpages, or if the running user is ``root''.)
> 
>   To create and install catpages during ``make world'', please
>   set MANBUILDCAT=YES in /etc/make.conf.  To rebuild catpages
>   on a weekly basis, please set weekly_catman_enable="YES" in
>   /etc/periodic.conf.

But with FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE a make world cycle does not build the
catpages within /usr/share/man/en.ISO8859-1/cat*. So even with
MANBUILDCAT=YES in my make.conf, I have to wait when accessing a man
page the first time. These directories are created by a make world
cycle.

Nicolas

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