From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Aug 17 12:14:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA25926 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Mon, 17 Aug 1998 12:14:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from localhost.my.domain (ppp6425.on.bellglobal.com [206.172.208.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA25909 for ; Mon, 17 Aug 1998 12:14:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hoek@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from localhost (tim@localhost) by localhost.my.domain (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA20190; Mon, 17 Aug 1998 15:13:19 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ac199@hwcn.org) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.my.domain: tim owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 15:13:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek X-Sender: tim@localhost Reply-To: ac199@hwcn.org To: Guy Helmer cc: Tim Vanderhoek , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports/7642: New port: xataxx-1.0 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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.... :-) -- This .sig is not innovative, witty, or profund. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message