pkgsrc-wip/man-db/TODO
Jeremy C. Reed 4a07981f35 Updated to version 2.4.2. Fixes some security issues.
Also, developer used some of my patches that I submitted to him,
so they can be removed now.
2003-10-01 23:52:50 +00:00

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yeah!! the developer used my patches/patch-ad and patch-ae and patch-af :)
It would be nice to have some pkgsrc-wide VARDIR (or VARBASE)
then use it for setting MAN_DB_CAT_DIR.
does this man check for /man/cat? pages before /var/cache ??
The config file should use settings used in install, like
MAN_DB_CAT_DIR.
MESSAGE mentions recreating cache indexes. Maybe this should be done
via INSTALL script?
MESSAGE did have:
su ${MAN_DB_USER} -c "${LOCALBASE}/bin/mandb -c"
but this needs a shell (Linux su has no -m)
should I have a shell or who cares?
bin/mandb -c can be done by any user. Should it really be setuid man-db?
what is lib/man-db used for?
This uses /var/cache/man
This needs to be patched to support .0 suffix in preformatted cat files;
I already discussed with developer.
this appears to work, test some more
need to test different tools this provides
maybe databases/db buildlink could be used instead of db3
I patched my db3 so it would provide db_185 compat
I have also used with gdbm
man.1 = $(DESTDIR)$(manroot)/$(nlspath)/$(man1dir)/$(man)$(man1ext)
GNU/./man1/man.1
Linux may need -lintl for LDLIBS in src/Makefile.in
make sure it reads the installed etc/man_db.conf
ask tech-pkg about MANDB_MAP
define a pager PAGER and BROWSER
if not netbsd, then depend on groff
--with-db=LIBRARY use database library LIBRARY
(db3, db2, db1, db, gdbm, ndbm)
--with-config-file=CF use config file CF [CF=SYSCONFDIR/man_db.conf]
--with-libiconv-prefix=DIR search for libiconv in DIR/include and DIR/lib
--with-included-gettext use the GNU gettext library included here