Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Thu, 23 Mar 1995 20:39:26 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users)
Subject:   Re: bsd.man.mk and catman
Message-ID:  <199503231939.UAA19407@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199503231749.SAA25377@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de> from "Wolfram Schneider" at Mar 23, 95 06:49:08 pm

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
As Wolfram Schneider wrote:
> 
> 
> Installing man pages (make world) force catman to reformat this pages.
> This is not neccessary because most pages are not changed. The patch
> install only new pages. Bug: owner/mode also unchanged.

Rather complex, even though i basically love the idea.

Folx, whattayathink about adding an option to install(1) to install
the file only if the destination is older than the source?  This
should also be faster than comparing entire files.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199503231939.UAA19407>