[LoN]Kamikaze wrote:
> Brooks Davis wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 11:52:26AM +0200, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote:
>>> Sergey Matveychuk wrote:
>>>> [LoN]Kamikaze wrote:
>>>>> I've got a Makefile where I install man pages int PREFIX/man/man1 and the 
>>>>> ports system nicely compresses them, but it does not make them available 
>>>>> for whatis. Should I run makewhatis PREFIX/man manually or is there a way 
>>>>> this is supposed to be done? The Porter's Handbook chapter 5.9 does not 
>>>>> mention whatis.
>>>> It will be done with weekly script 320.whatis.
>>>> I think we have no practice to do it when a port is installed.
>>>>
>>> Thanks for the reply.
>>>
>>> That means I don't have to take care of it, still it would make more
>>> sense to let the ports take care of it.
>> If we're going to do it, setting MAN variables should cause it to happen
>> in bsd.port.mk rather than having it done adhoc.
>>
>> -- Brooks
> 
> That's what I was expecting in the first place. And it should be trivial to 
> accomplish for someone who has the privileges to work on the Ports system.

Everyone have privileges to work on the Ports system. :)

-- 
Dixi.
Sem.
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