Re: /usr/share/man/man8/MAKEDEV.8

From: Andrew Lankford <lankfordandrew_at_charter.net>
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:37:45 -0400
Thanks for replying, but once again I've miscommunicated the issue.  I 
meant that MAKEDEV.8 is in /usr/src/share/man/man8/, and the
modification time is Oct 13th, recent, which suggests to me that it's 
still in the 7.0-BETA1 cvs tree.

Andrew Lankford


Doug Barton wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Oct 2007, Christian Brueffer wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 12:03:33AM -0400, Andrew Lankford wrote:
>>>   I just noticed that /usr/share/man/man8/MAKEDEV.8 is still in the
>>> FreeBSD-7 tree.  Is this intentional?  It still says that MAKEDEV is
>>> located in /dev and mentions MAKEDEV.local as well.
>>>
>>
>> Could it be that you have updated this machine from RELENG_4?  The fact
>> that the file you're referring to has no .gz extention show that it's
>> stale, manpages have been compressed for some time now.
> 
> A simple way to make sure you don't get bitten by this is to 'rm -r 
> /usr/share/man' right before you do 'make installworld'. (Or you can mv 
> it if you're paranoid, I've been deleting it for a long time now and 
> it's never bitten me.)
> 
> hth,
> 
> Doug
> 
Received on Sun Oct 28 2007 - 15:37:54 UTC

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