From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 24 16:22:30 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9EDF1065688 for ; Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:22:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sys@sellerbay.org) Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com (rv-out-0506.google.com [209.85.198.224]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3CEA8FC22 for ; Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:22:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sys@sellerbay.org) Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id b25so2064056rvf.43 for ; Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:22:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.141.171.6 with SMTP id y6mr782773rvo.174.1209054150300; Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:22:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.141.96.4 with HTTP; Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:22:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <6a5b467e0804240922g5f3d8617g2bbdce52c10c006f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:22:29 +0200 From: "Ashant Chalasani" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20080424055311.GF1449@amilo.cenkes.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <6a5b467e0804150907u20d1163fo27c067c025d8b08c@mail.gmail.com> <200804151934.36301.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> <20080424055311.GF1449@amilo.cenkes.org> Subject: Re: Install port without man page X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:22:30 -0000 I've experimented with the isc-dhcp3-server port all 3 options - NO_INSTALL_MANPAGES, NOPORTDOCS and MANPREFIX and in every case there were manpages installed in /mnt/man/ [root@fbsd70 /mnt/man]# find . -name *dhcp* ./man5/dhcp-options.5 ./man5/dhcp-eval.5 ./man5/dhcpd.conf.5 ./man5/dhcpd.leases.5 ./man8/dhcpd.8 However, with [root@fbsd70 /usr/ports/net/isc-dhcp3-server]# make install clean MANPREFIX=/tmp/ PREFIX=/mnt/ we got... ===> Compressing manual pages for isc-dhcp3-server-3.0.5_2 gzip: can't stat: /tmp//man/man1/omshell.1: No such file or directory gzip: can't stat: /tmp//man/man5/dhcpd.conf.5: No such file or directory gzip: can't stat: /tmp//man/man5/dhcpd.leases.5: No such file or directory gzip: can't stat: /tmp//man/man5/dhcp-eval.5: No such file or directory gzip: can't stat: /tmp//man/man5/dhcp-options.5: No such file or directory gzip: can't stat: /tmp//man/man8/dhcpd.8: No such file or directory Thanks for all the advice. Ashant On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 7:53 AM, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 07:34:35PM +0200, Mel wrote: > > On Tuesday 15 April 2008 18:07:42 Ashant Chalasani wrote: > > > > > Is there a way to install a port without the man-pages. I'm trying to > > > install a dhcp server onto a Tinybsd image and end up buying myself a > > > bunch of files in /man, as seen at > > > http://code.google.com/p/tinybsdap/wiki/InstallingPorts (hope the > > > linking is not minded). > > > > If the port controls installing the manpages, then you can set > > NO_INSTALL_MANPAGES in /etc/make.conf. > > NO_INSTALL_MANPAGES is traditionally just an imake-related hack, > which is hardly respected, but rather used. At the moment there > is no policy or knob to control manpage installation. However, > many ports respect MANPREFIX/MANxPREFIX. > -- Ashant Chalasani http://code.google.com/p/tinybsdap/