Re: how to SVN regenerate [ man awk ]

From: Jeffrey Bouquet <jbtakk_at_iherebuywisely.com>
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2017 10:30:33 -0800 (PST)
On Thu, 9 Mar 2017 08:43:29 -0800, David Wolfskill <david_at_catwhisker.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 09, 2017 at 07:00:13AM -0800, Jeffrey Bouquet wrote:
> > For $giggles$ I svn up /usr/src/usr.bin/awk  or wherever, then
> > man awk displays not the newer import per a recent SVN but
> > the older 2015 [ it says ] one.  Stale file, or not all parts of
> > the man page updated to include latest revision dat, or some
> > other command to [g]unzip or whatever, besides 320.whatis
> > in periodic--weekly, update the compressed latest installed
> > files from /usr/obj to what one expects when one has just
> > recompiled the  man page?
> 
> If you intend to use "svn up", you should probably review, and
> follow the instructions in, /usr/src/UPDATING.

but just for one binary?  and one man page update? 
As in, it is only two files, how to update singly if does not require a buildworld...

> 
> > This crops up quite a lot on this machine, so I am unschooled in
manpath
(Warning: MANPATH environment variable set)

/usr/share/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/share/openssl/man:/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/man:/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/man:/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.24/perl/man:/usr/local/share/xpdf/man



> > some principle of updating this operating system.  
> > 
> > If it matters, I receive a 
> > 
> > WARNING manpath environment variable set
> > 
> > when starting an additional
> > xterm & ... 
> 
> You may have code in your login shell's initialization file that sets
> MANPATH....
> 

MANPATH="`manpath`"

> Peace,
> david
> -- 
> David H. Wolfskill				david_at_catwhisker.org
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> 
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