Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 08:41:57 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: catman Message-ID: <199605200641.IAA04667@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960519175531.580A-100000-100000-100000@onyx.nervosa.com> from "Chris J. Layne" at "May 19, 96 06:01:27 pm"
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As Chris J. Layne wrote: > > The default for the man pages sources _is_ to keep them gzipped (and > > yes, man/catman/makewhatis do know how to handle this). If you don't > > like man page sources around, a simple > > That wasn't what I was referring to, I was referring to the difference > between catman's preformatted ASCII pages vs the normal unformatted. Me too. :) ``unformatted man pages'' == ``man page sources''. > > rm -rf /usr/share/man/man* > > This of course only is useful after you have catman'd all the pages, and > it should be 'rm `find /usr/share/man|grep -v whatis`'. The downside to This will remove any man page except that for ``makewhatis'', and the whatis database itself. :-/ You could have written it shorter, btw.: rm `find /usr/share/man ! -name '*whatis*' -print` (No need for grep here. The -print is optional, but _only_ for BSD.) > > will do (as opposed to any black magic in catman(1)), as well as > > disabling makewhatis (so the existing makewhatis databases won't be > > clobbered). > > When you add more manpages you need to update the whatis databases, this > update process will most likely clobber the old database because you > already nuked the old unformatted man files. You can teach makewhatis to only add records, instead of clobbering the entire database. I don't believe it's worth the while. (Read this: i think there are more important projects waiting in the queue.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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