From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 15 03:00:49 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6867F16A419 for ; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 03:00:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chess@chessgriffin.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.239]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 220FE13C447 for ; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 03:00:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chess@chessgriffin.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i29so1289728wxd for ; Sun, 14 Oct 2007 20:00:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.113.5 with SMTP id l5mr10168488wxc.1192417247853; Sun, 14 Oct 2007 20:00:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost ( [69.134.34.168]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id i18sm3973413wxd.2007.10.14.20.00.45 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 14 Oct 2007 20:00:46 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 23:00:44 -0400 From: Chess Griffin To: Andrew Pantyukhin Message-ID: <20071015030044.GA94915@localhost> References: <20071012135436.GA56248@localhost> <20071013082809.GD1554@amilo.cenkes.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="9jxsPFA5p3P2qPhR" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071013082809.GD1554@amilo.cenkes.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NOPORTDOCS and man/info pages X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Chess Griffin List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 03:00:49 -0000 --9jxsPFA5p3P2qPhR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable * Andrew Pantyukhin [2007-10-13 12:28:10]: >=20 > > So, my questions are: > >=20 > > Is the above handling of the man and info pages correct? It seems the > > answer is no, but just thought I would check. >=20 > Not really, but I guess there may be some special cases that > warrant the handling (e.g. megabytes of manpages, etc.) >=20 > > How does one choose not to install man and info pages if NOPORTDOCS > > does not apply to them? I seem to recall that there is a > > NO_INSTALL_MANPAGES knob but am not sure if that's the answer or if the= re > > is a NO_INSTALL_INFOPAGES. >=20 > Some people tried to respect some knobs, but in general we just > always install manpages. As for infopages, we usually only > install them when there are no manpages or if the manpages are > insufficient. >=20 > > Is is correct procedure to never include man and info pages in the > > pkg-plist like Porter's Handbook states? >=20 > Sometimes it's necessary to list manpages in plist. E.g. when > there are different sets of manpages for different languages. > MANLANG and MAN# can only handle one set across all languages. Thank you very much, Andrew. Cheers- --=20 Chess Griffin GPG Public Key: 0x0C7558C3 http://www.chessgriffin.com --9jxsPFA5p3P2qPhR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFHEtfcKzd9mAx1WMMRAgrDAJ9kU6TvO0BLIfMbl9jOSCDXlF+3KwCeJAHg jwOcFrURFto3RvtJJ37U2I4= =6LqU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --9jxsPFA5p3P2qPhR--