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Subject: Re: Dealing with an external manpage
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Beech Rintoul wrote:
> I was successful at creating the manpage for the port i'm working on. My 
> problem is I'm not sure how to install it. The porter's Handbook wasn't much 
> help. The manpage is in files and I need to compress and install it in man8 
> like a normal manpage from workdir, I'm just not sure what to put in the 
> makefile. Could someone give me a hand here? Most of the examples I found 
> dealt with extra docs.

Check out sysutils/portmaster/Makefile.

hth,

Doug

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