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Date:      Mon, 17 Aug 1998 15:13:19 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Tim Vanderhoek <ac199@hwcn.org>
To:        Guy Helmer <ghelmer@scl.ameslab.gov>
Cc:        Tim Vanderhoek <ac199@hwcn.org>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ports/7642: New port: xataxx-1.0
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980817150641.1050D-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.96.980817125503.17944A-100000@demios.scl.ameslab.gov>

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On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, Guy Helmer wrote:

> How does one handle the case where a manpage needs to be linked to another
> name?  Say a package has a page "foo.1", which needs to be linked to

Carefully.  :-)

It depends how those links are created in the first place.  So
long as

$ make install
$ pkg_delete
$ pkg_add

all do the right thing, that's probably good enough.  You might
find it's not even worth the work trying to make sure that hard
links to manpages created during ``make install'' are properly
compressed (just make sure they're properly deleted during
pkg_delete if you do this).

Usually ports with this problem require some @exec aerobics in
pkg/PLIST.

pkg_add/create is rumoured to handle hard links, but given its
BUGS section, I haven't bothered to investigate this capability
further....  :-)


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