From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Nov 26 07:18:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA07632 for ports-outgoing; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 07:18:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from knight.cons.org (knight.cons.org [194.233.237.86]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA07627 for ; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 07:18:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (from cracauer@localhost) by knight.cons.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA11574; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 16:20:49 +0100 (MET) Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 16:20:49 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <199611261520.QAA11574@knight.cons.org> From: Martin Cracauer To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk What are port maintainers supposed to do about the manpages in ${PREFIX}/man/cat when the package is about to be removed? Two problems: 1) I can't add it to PLIST, because it may not exist when the package is being deleted. 2) Rather a man(1) problem, when my port installs a compressed manpage (MAN1 port Makefile variable) the file that ends up in cat/ is still foo.1.gz. What to do? Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer http://www.cons.org/cracauer cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (batched, preferred for large mails) Tel.: (daytime) +4940 41478712 (sometimes hacker's daytime :-) Tel.: (private) +4940 5221829 Fax.: (private) +4940 5228536 Paper: (private) Waldstrasse 200, 22846 Norderstedt, Germany