/usr/share/man/man8/MAKEDEV.8
Andrew Lankford
lankfordandrew at charter.net
Sun Oct 28 09:37:54 PDT 2007
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
>
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