Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 01:32:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Christian Brueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Andrew Lankford <lankfordandrew@charter.net>, stable@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /usr/share/man/man8/MAKEDEV.8 Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.0.9999.0710280131220.2400@qbhto.arg> In-Reply-To: <20071028074248.GA1511@haakonia.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE> References: <47240A15.8080305@charter.net> <20071028074248.GA1511@haakonia.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
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On Sun, 28 Oct 2007, Christian Brueffer wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 12:03:33AM -0400, Andrew Lankford wrote:
>> I just noticed that /usr/share/man/man8/MAKEDEV.8 is still in the
>> FreeBSD-7 tree. Is this intentional? It still says that MAKEDEV is
>> located in /dev and mentions MAKEDEV.local as well.
>>
>
> Could it be that you have updated this machine from RELENG_4? The fact
> that the file you're referring to has no .gz extention show that it's
> stale, manpages have been compressed for some time now.
A simple way to make sure you don't get bitten by this is to 'rm -r
/usr/share/man' right before you do 'make installworld'. (Or you can mv it
if you're paranoid, I've been deleting it for a long time now and it's
never bitten me.)
hth,
Doug
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