incorrect manpages in groff-1.22.2_1

creiderc . creiderc at gmail.com
Mon Nov 24 18:31:39 UTC 2014


Correction and apologies for a mistaken post.  I was using -m instead of -M
and got the old manpages.  It wasn't until I copied
/usr/local/man/man1/groff.1.gz to my home directory, gunzipped it and
looked at it that I realized my mistake.  The manpage installed with pkg
_is_ the correct one and the correct command to get it is:
    "man -M /usr/local/man groff"  (or one can set this directory ahead of
/usr/share/man on MANPATH)

On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 8:30 PM, Chet Creider <ccreider at sigilai.my.domain>
wrote:

> I am a newbie on freebsd.  Reporting from 9.3 Release where I have
> installed via 'pkg install' groff-1.22.2_1.  I did this to obtain
> the -Tpdf output option, which is not available on the stock
> groff-1.19.2 which comes with the 9.3 distribution.  It works fine,
> but the manpage which ought to describe the pdf option is the wrong
> one.  It is for groff-1.19.2 although dated July 2014.  I know from
> using groff-1.22 on other machines that updated manpages are available
> and provide these if this wasn't simply an oversight.  Hope this
> is helpful. P.S. I am glad that the new version didn't overwrite
> the old so that I can see both the system manpage for groff in
> /usr/share/man/man1 and your manpage in /usr/local/man/man1.
>


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