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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, j@uriah.heep.sax.de
Subject: Re: bsd.man.mk and catman
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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.

My hacked install sort of does this.  Installing man pages is slower
than before but they end up with the timestamps unchanged.  They also
end up with the owner/mode _changed_ (if necessary) :-).

Bruce