Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 12:25:33 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: conf/33575: [PATCH] allow using of -C option during install of man pages Message-ID: <20020109122533.C41379@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <20020109111529.A67276@curry.mchp.siemens.de> References: <200201091014.g09AE2E33220@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020109111529.A67276@curry.mchp.siemens.de>
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On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:15:29AM +0100, Andre Albsmeier wrote: > On Wed, 09-Jan-2002 at 02:14:02 -0800, ru@FreeBSD.org wrote: > > Synopsis: [PATCH] allow using of -C option during install of man pages > > > > State-Changed-From-To: open->suspended > > State-Changed-By: ru > > State-Changed-When: Wed Jan 9 02:11:34 PST 2002 > > State-Changed-Why: > > The catpaging feature of man(1) is going to be axed in the > > next couple of days. > > Oops, why this? Did I miss something? > This feature of man(1) is insecure in many ways, catpages are optional, and there are good alternatives exist for creating catpages in a secure way during the `make world' (MANBUILDCAT) and on a periodic(8) basis (weekly_catman_enable). Please see PR bin/32791 for details. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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