Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 23:00:44 -0400 From: Chess Griffin <chess@chessgriffin.com> To: Andrew Pantyukhin <infofarmer@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NOPORTDOCS and man/info pages Message-ID: <20071015030044.GA94915@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20071013082809.GD1554@amilo.cenkes.org> References: <20071012135436.GA56248@localhost> <20071013082809.GD1554@amilo.cenkes.org>
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--9jxsPFA5p3P2qPhR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable * Andrew Pantyukhin <infofarmer@FreeBSD.org> [2007-10-13 12:28:10]: >=20 > > So, my questions are: > >=20 > > Is the above handling of the man and info pages correct? It seems the > > answer is no, but just thought I would check. >=20 > Not really, but I guess there may be some special cases that > warrant the handling (e.g. megabytes of manpages, etc.) >=20 > > How does one choose not to install man and info pages if NOPORTDOCS > > does not apply to them? I seem to recall that there is a > > NO_INSTALL_MANPAGES knob but am not sure if that's the answer or if the= re > > is a NO_INSTALL_INFOPAGES. >=20 > Some people tried to respect some knobs, but in general we just > always install manpages. As for infopages, we usually only > install them when there are no manpages or if the manpages are > insufficient. >=20 > > Is is correct procedure to never include man and info pages in the > > pkg-plist like Porter's Handbook states? >=20 > Sometimes it's necessary to list manpages in plist. E.g. when > there are different sets of manpages for different languages. > MANLANG and MAN# can only handle one set across all languages. Thank you very much, Andrew. Cheers- --=20 Chess Griffin GPG Public Key: 0x0C7558C3 http://www.chessgriffin.com --9jxsPFA5p3P2qPhR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFHEtfcKzd9mAx1WMMRAgrDAJ9kU6TvO0BLIfMbl9jOSCDXlF+3KwCeJAHg jwOcFrURFto3RvtJJ37U2I4= =6LqU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --9jxsPFA5p3P2qPhR--
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