OK, I give. I'll work on a "manconf" package, which just installs a
script that calls man with "-E" which points to a modified man.conf file
in /sw/etc.
tcltk and gmt will depend on manconf instead of man.
-Jeff
On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Martin Costabel wrote:
> On lundi, janvier 21, 2002, at 02:
On lundi, janvier 21, 2002, at 02:26 , Jeff Whitaker wrote:
>
> Christian: I fixed this in CVS, but at the cost of adding gawk and
> findutils as dependencies. Maybe Max's "thin script" idea is the
> way to
> go after all...
Yes, I think this goes too far. Now I would have to install (and
ru
Christian: I fixed this in CVS, but at the cost of adding gawk and
findutils as dependencies. Maybe Max's "thin script" idea is the way to
go after all...
-Jeff
> On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Christian Swinehart wrote:
> On Sunday, January 20, 2002, at 02:41 pm, Jeff Whitaker
wrote:
> >> I don't par
Christian Swinehart wrote:
> Here's the bug I ran across:
>
> [cds@moth ~] % sudo /sw/sbin/makewhatis /sw/share/man/
> /usr/bin/awk: syntax error at source line 20 in function closeline
> context is
> return >>> close <<< (pipe_cmd);
Whatis /sw/bin/makewhatis? I don'
On Sunday, January 20, 2002, at 02:41 pm, Jeff Whitaker wrote:
>> I don't particulary like the changed behaviour of this man, and in
>> addition, I am basically force to use it, unless I decide to remove
>> tcltk and python, too (which I did for now) :/
>
> What behavior don't you like? As far as
The linux kernel archives are offline due to a hardware failure...
attempting to build the man package is failing.
Yes, it'll come back someday.
But this raises the question:
Do we want to look into building a network of mirrors for the various
source bits in Fink?
I could do
At 12:41 Uhr -0700 20.01.2002, Jeff Whitaker wrote:
>On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Max Horn wrote:
>
>> May I ask, why does the man package a) use the man version from linux
>>
>
>It's not "from" linux - the kernel.org site was just a convenient download
>location.
OK, it's not a linux version, sorry. Bu
On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Max Horn wrote:
> May I ask, why does the man package a) use the man version from linux
>
It's not "from" linux - the kernel.org site was just a convenient download
location.
> b) why does it compile its own man version at all - why not a
> thin script that calls /usr/bin/m
May I ask, why does the man package a) use the man version from linux
and b) why does it compile its own man version at all - why not a
thin script that calls /usr/bin/man but with a custom config file?
I don't particulary like the changed behaviour of this man, and in
addition, I am basically
