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Date:      Wed, 9 Jan 2002 11:36:41 +0100
From:      Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de>
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de>, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: conf/33575: [PATCH] allow using of -C option during install of man pages
Message-ID:  <20020109113641.A74272@curry.mchp.siemens.de>
In-Reply-To: <20020109122533.C41379@sunbay.com>; from ru@FreeBSD.ORG on Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 12:25:33PM %2B0200
References:  <200201091014.g09AE2E33220@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020109111529.A67276@curry.mchp.siemens.de> <20020109122533.C41379@sunbay.com>

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On Wed, 09-Jan-2002 at 12:25:33 +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> 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.

Hmm, OK, you have won :-) If you want you can close the PR
immediatley.

Thanks,

	-Andre

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