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Date:      Tue, 5 Mar 2002 14:15:21 +0100
From:      Nicolas Rachinsky <list@rachinsky.de>
To:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Changes to man page in 4.5-R?
Message-ID:  <20020305131521.GA41558@pc5.abc>
In-Reply-To: <200203050209.g2529Lc47340@grumpy.dyndns.org>
References:  <20020304090236.GA70885@pc5.abc> <200203050209.g2529Lc47340@grumpy.dyndns.org>

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* On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 08:09:21PM -0600,
* David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> wrote:
> Nicolas Rachinsky writes:
> > But with FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE a make world cycle does not build the
> > catpages within /usr/share/man/en.ISO8859-1/cat*. So even with
> > MANBUILDCAT=YES in my make.conf, I have to wait when accessing a man
> > page the first time. These directories are created by a make world
> > cycle.
> 
> Why is this such a fuss? Prebuilding your installed manpages is only
> this far away: 
> # echo /usr/bin/catman  | nice -5 su -m man

Which would not rebuild the localized man pages. Since I have
LC_CTYPE=de_DE.ISO8859-15, I would have to execute, for example:
echo /usr/bin/catman -L | LC_ALL=en.ISO8859-1 nice -5 su -m man

But the problem is not that I have not catpages (I know how to build
them), the problem is, that a feature of the make world cycle
MANBUILDCAT=YES does not work as advertised.

> Or you could put this in /etc/periodic.conf to have any new man pages 
> preformatted once per week:
> weekly_catman_enable="YES"

You have to change /etc/manpath.conf (enable MANLOCALES) and
afterwards you'll notice that weekly_catman_enable is broken, see
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=35558

Nicolas

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