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Date:      Thu, 23 Mar 1995 11:58:54 -0800 (PST)
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com>
To:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: bsd.man.mk and catman
Message-ID:  <199503231958.LAA10552@ref.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: <199503231939.UAA19407@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Mar 23, 95 08:39:26 pm

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> > 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 <phk@login.dknet.dk> -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc.
'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent'
=> 'no rude people are relevant'



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