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Date:      Wed, 8 May 2002 09:30:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>
To:        freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ports/37384: packaging of lang/expect fails
Message-ID:  <200205081630.g48GU7o29791@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR ports/37384; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>
To: parv <parv@pair.com>
Cc: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>,
	freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: ports/37384: packaging of lang/expect fails
Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 11:24:43 -0500

 On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 12:23:39PM -0400, parv wrote:
 > in message <3CD93F54.3070006@inethouston.net>,
 > wrote David W. Chapman Jr. thusly...
 > >
 > > So a simple fix is to set MANCOMPRESSED to no?
 > 
 > that is not a fix.  setting MANCOMPRESSED=no only avoids the problem
 > to come up; fix would be if there were a way of compressing the man
 > pages w/o error.
 > 
 > 
 > > from the porters handbook
 > > 
 > > To specify whether the manpages are compressed upon installation,
 > > use the MANCOMPRESSED  variable. This variable can take three
 > > values, yes, no and maybe. yes  means manpages are already
 > > installed compressed, no means they are not, and maybe means the
 > > software already respects the value of NOMANCOMPRESS so
 > > bsd.port.mk does not have to do anything special.
 > > 
 > > yes just means the man pages are compressed, no means they are
 > > not, and maybe means the port respects NOMANCOMPRESS
 > 
 > unless i am missing something deep, i set MANCOMPRESSED=yes in order
 > to have compressed man pages installed -- which seems to be
 > compatible w/ above quoted paragraph -- but the they weren't.  only
 > a list of man pages w/ '.gz' was created, but man pages were
 > installed uncompressed.
 
 No, MANCOMPRESSED=YES means the port compresses the manpages for you.
 MANCOMPRESSED=NO means the port doesn't compress the man pages and 
 MANCOMPRESSED=maybe means it respects NOMANCOMPRESS
 
 -- 
 David W. Chapman Jr.
 dwcjr@inethouston.net	Raintree Network Services, Inc. <www.inethouston.net>
 dwcjr@freebsd.org	FreeBSD Committer <www.FreeBSD.org>

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