On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 3:44 AM, Mike Gerdts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After I my recent putback of some enhancements to man (PSARC/2007/688) > one of the comments I received was that now it would be nice if man > pages were automatically indexed. The best solution I have to this > today is to run find to look for directories that look like they > contain man pages then run "catman -w" against them. Surely there is > a better way. > > I was thinking that the better way would be to have a service similar > to fc-cache that looked at the timestamps of man* and sman* > directories subdirectories and compared them to the timestamp of the > assocatiated windex files.
Isn't the better way to get packages delivering manpages to deliver preformatted manpages and their windex (or some index, at least), and to have man just look at all the windex fragments? It seems silly for every user to have to rebuild all this when it should be supplied already done. (And having the man command use the index rather than traversing the filesystem hierarchy so it runs at acceptable speed would be good.) -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
