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Re: dealing with catdir in postinstall
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 21:12:56 -0500
- Subject: Re: dealing with catdir in postinstall
- References: <20040226020505.29246.qmail@web61109.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 06:05:05PM -0800, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
>I've been rewriting cygwin-doc's postinstall to remove the
>bash-specific syntax and came up with this script to take care of
>removing (possibly stale) preformatted man pages. I was thinking that
>this is a possible problem for any packages that include man pages, and
>so maybe it would be best to come up with something like
>_update_info_dir. Unfortunately it would be complicated, unless we did
>something like "remove all preformatted pages after any update", or
>somehow kept a list of updated packages to zgrep for man pages.
Doesn't man check creation times of the man page versus the formatted
page and regen as needed?
cgf