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Subject: Re: No man pages
From: asami@freebsd.org (Satoshi Asami)
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 * ${FILESDIR} is a local directory. The man page will be on a remote server,
 * seperate from the one which the main source comes from so how do I get
 * them from the remote serverto ${FILESDIR}?

I think there might be some misunderstanding on your part. ;)

Why don't you go look at the handbook?  There's everything you'd ever
need to know about ports, at

http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/porting.html

Satoshi