Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 13:58:01 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: PAHowes@Fair-ware.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A couple of 5.0-RELEASE bugs... Message-ID: <20030215215800.GC20462@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <xzpel69o1oe.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> References: <001301c2d51b$b114d140$0200a8c0@howesnet> <xzpel69o1oe.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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--nmemrqcdn5VTmUEE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 07:10:09PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > The second problem is related to the "NOMANCOMPRESS" flag in make.conf. > > When installing the XFree86-4 port, I found that the "install" and > > "package" targets would stop with an error saying that they couldn't > > find gzip'd versions of the man pages. Of course that made sense when I > > specifically didn't want the man pages compressed! I think some of the > > scripts are not paying attention to that flag. >=20 > Most port developers never test their ports with NOMANCOMPRESS; most > of them probably aren't even aware of NOMANCOMPRESS. I don't really > see the point with it except on slow machines with plenty of disk > space (compressed man pages will probably load faster because disk I/O > is far more expensive than the CPU time required to decompress them) Right..this is probably a bug in the port. Could you send-pr a full description of how to reproduce it? Kris --nmemrqcdn5VTmUEE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+TrfoWry0BWjoQKURAt66AJ9gTg3fdpR5vEZKwwjBbM7DHUcxnQCfRmFs d38s5a4rlGNJzzk2rsILtcE= =S7vL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nmemrqcdn5VTmUEE-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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