Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:32:47 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org> Cc: Andrew Lankford <lankfordandrew@charter.net>, stable@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /usr/share/man/man8/MAKEDEV.8 Message-ID: <20071030113247.GA3941@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <20071029191836.GA58058@eos.sc1.parodius.com> References: <47240A15.8080305@charter.net> <20071028074248.GA1511@haakonia.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE> <alpine.BSF.0.9999.0710280131220.2400@qbhto.arg> <4724BAD9.7000400@charter.net> <20071028164152.GA7516@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <E1ImBHh-000OiV-Mc@cs1.cs.huji.ac.il> <4724BEB3.5080905@charter.net> <20071029132447.GA2658@kobe.laptop> <20071029191836.GA58058@eos.sc1.parodius.com>
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On 2007-10-29 12:18, Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 03:24:47PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> > On 2007-10-28 12:54, Andrew Lankford <lankfordandrew@charter.net> wrote:
> > > Thbbt! I'm reading the catman version of MAKEDEV. Wish I could
> > > disable that "feature". Oh well. I'll delete it all and rebuild it
> > > again if needed. Thanks!
> >
> > Ah, that's it then :)
> >
> > My usual `installworld' steps include this too:
> >
> > # cd /usr/share/man
> > # find cat[0-9] \! -type d -exec rm {} +
>
> There's a periodic script (/etc/periodic/weekly/330.catman) which
> rebuilds all the catman pages for you. However, it makes an immense
> mess of your weekly system mails due to all the manpage/nroff formatting
> mistakes. Have a look:
>
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2007-May/040648.html
Very interesting. Maybe we can tweak 330.catman to display the filename
of the manpage which causes each error. Then we could use the periodic
script as an aid to start actually *fixing* the errors :)
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