Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 13:20:31 -0700 From: Ted Faber <faber@ISI.EDU> To: Alan E <alane@geeksrus.net> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG, Ted Faber <faber@ISI.EDU> Subject: Re: netpbm-10.8 does not install man pages? Message-ID: <20020912202031.GA10170@pun.isi.edu> In-Reply-To: <20020912180839.GB90932@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> References: <20020912180227.GC8940@pun.isi.edu> <20020912180839.GB90932@wwweasel.geeksrus.net>
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--+HP7ph2BbKc20aGI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 02:08:39PM -0400, Alan E wrote: > On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 11:02:27AM -0700, Ted Faber wrote: > >I notice that the netpbm-10.8 port doesn't seem to install manual pages. > >Is that on purpose? If not, I can probably whip up a patch. > > > > I don't know if there are man-page. But attached is a mirror of the > docs on sourceforge. Feel free to patch that in installing in $DOCSDIR. So, I see the problem now. For some reason the netpbm people decided to stop providing the helpful and informative manual pages that shipped with the pbm package for many years. There's a makefile target that creates a set of manual pages that tells users to check the web. I saw that target and thought that it would install the man pages I remember that had information, but it seems that they don't. It seems perfectly reasonable to omit installing 100 or so manual pages with no content in the port. Should you decide that you want to install their "pointer" man pages (that just have a message telling users where to go), I can give you a patch to do so, but deciding not to do that would not make me sad. Yuk. Sorry to bother you, and thanks for your reply. --+HP7ph2BbKc20aGI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9gPcPaUz3f+Zf+XsRAuBAAKDokvAA2wFu/ZJ8bf4fZ4XcSS8uXACgnPPW 9306B6D6vDx29fHsJGMKJsk= =V1qW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --+HP7ph2BbKc20aGI-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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