From owner-freebsd-current Thu Mar 23 12:12:02 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA19765 for current-outgoing; Thu, 23 Mar 1995 12:12:02 -0800 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA19759 for ; Thu, 23 Mar 1995 12:11:59 -0800 Received: (from phk@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id LAA10552; Thu, 23 Mar 1995 11:58:54 -0800 From: Poul-Henning Kamp Message-Id: <199503231958.LAA10552@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: bsd.man.mk and catman To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Thu, 23 Mar 1995 11:58:54 -0800 (PST) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199503231939.UAA19407@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Mar 23, 95 08:39:26 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 766 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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. I'm for the "compare entire file" method, with the twist that if you see the size change, you know they will be different. -- Poul-Henning Kamp -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc. 'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent' => 'no rude people are relevant'