From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 11 13:04:11 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id NAA03152 for current-outgoing; Tue, 11 Apr 1995 13:04:11 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id NAA03123 for ; Tue, 11 Apr 1995 13:03:54 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA29182; Tue, 11 Apr 1995 22:03:02 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.9/8.6.9-s1) with UUCP id WAA05315 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 11 Apr 1995 22:03:02 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id VAA06041 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 11 Apr 1995 21:58:06 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199504111958.VAA06041@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: /usr/share/man/cat? To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 21:58:06 +0200 (MET DST) In-Reply-To: <199504111920.VAA08392@grunt.grondar.za> from "Mark Murray" at Apr 11, 95 09:20:46 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 580 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Mark Murray wrote: > > This seems to be true of /usr/share/man/... but it is not the case in > /usr/local/man/... and /usr/X11R6/man/... Right. The entire local tree is not being setup. And the XFree86 package should ensure the creation of cat dirs itself (at the very least, via the PLIST scenario). I think this holds valid for any other port as well (for /usr/local), but most `porters' forget about this (including me :-p). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)