Correct way to install preprocessed man pages

Jake Smith jake at xz.cx
Wed May 1 13:49:51 UTC 2013


On 2013-05-01 14:09, Jake Smith wrote:
> On 2013-05-01 14:00, Dominic Fandrey wrote:
>> On 01/05/2013 14:29, Jake Smith wrote:
>>> I am putting a new port together, but the source for the man pages 
>>> is not provided in the source tar for the package (and I can't find a 
>>> public repo). Instead only the "preprocessed" version is included.
>>
>> Do you mean it's already compressed or it's already formatted? That
>> would be odd, because I think that should tie in with TERM and 
>> PAGER.
>> So it must be considered broken by design.
>>
>> Regards
>
> It's already formatted, sorry I realise the term "preprocessed"
> doesn't really mean anything. If you cat the man page file it looks
> like a correctly formatted man page should. I don't have access to 
> the
> original man page source.
>
> Thanks,
> Jake
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Just a bit more information to help explain what I'm on about.

The port is for MySQL ZRM, the source can be downloaded from 
http://www.zmanda.com/downloads/community/ZRM-MySQL/2.2/Source/MySQL-zrm-2.2.0.tar.gz 
and an example of the kind of man page I am talking about in the tar is 
'./MySQL-zrm-2.2.0/usr/share/man/man1/mysql-zrm.1'.

Thanks for your time!
Jake


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