Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 16:18:46 -0600 From: Ade Lovett <ade@lovett.com> To: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Creating a port: Manpage question Message-ID: <19991210161846.F30614@lovett.com> In-Reply-To: <199912102150.NAA98123@nimitz.ca.sandia.gov>; from bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV on Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 01:50:56PM -0800 References: <199912101653.IAA92410@nimitz.ca.sandia.gov> <XFMail.991210155535.andrews@technologist.com> <19991210153928.A30614@lovett.com> <199912102150.NAA98123@nimitz.ca.sandia.gov>
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On Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 01:50:56PM -0800, Bruce A. Mah wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> I wrote:
> > In the meantime, I'd just treat the formatted manpage as just another
> > file (ie: not special like source manpages), and add them in to pkg/PLIST.
>
> So...drop it in as ${PREFIX}/man/cat1/foo.1.gz then?
Yup.
> Of course it'd be much better if I had the original troff source for
> this thing.
Definitely.
> In case anyone's curious, this is for XBarcode, a barcode printer that
> needs xview to support its GUI. I'm not sure whether turning this into
> a real, submitted port is a good idea or not. :-)
Ye gods.. broken manpages _and_ xview.. all we need is for an xbarcode.el
for the triple whammy.. :)
-aDe
--
Ade Lovett, Austin, TX.
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