Date: Sun, 19 May 1996 11:05:35 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: catman Message-ID: <199605190905.LAA00504@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960518212339.18398A-100000@onyx.nervosa.com> from invalid opcode at "May 18, 96 09:28:43 pm"
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As invalid opcode wrote: > It's obvious that catman is a Good Thing (tm), _except_ for the fact that > the old man files are still laying around. I have come to my own > conclusion that they are still needed because of makewhatis(1). I know > it's possible to catman a binarie's, etc's, manpages instead of just gzip > -9'ing them while doing a make world. Not only would this leave us... Huh? What are you talking all about here? The default for the man pages sources _is_ to keep them gzipped (and yes, man/catman/makewhatis do know how to handle this). If you don't like man page sources around, a simple rm -rf /usr/share/man/man* will do (as opposed to any black magic in catman(1)), as well as disabling makewhatis (so the existing makewhatis databases won't be clobbered). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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