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Date:      Wed, 19 Jul 2006 10:48:11 +0400
From:      Sergey Matveychuk <sem@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "[LoN]Kamikaze" <LoN_Kamikaze@gmx.de>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: makewhatis from ports
Message-ID:  <44BDD5AB.3060801@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <44BCF5F0.7090809@gmx.de>
References:  <44BCF5F0.7090809@gmx.de>

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[LoN]Kamikaze wrote:
> I've got a Makefile where I install man pages int PREFIX/man/man1 and the ports system nicely compresses them, but it does not make them available for whatis. Should I run makewhatis PREFIX/man manually or is there a way this is supposed to be done? The Porter's Handbook chapter 5.9 does not mention whatis.

It will be done with weekly script 320.whatis.
I think we have no practice to do it when a port is installed.

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Dixi.
Sem.



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