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Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2025 19:04:08 UTC
The branch main has been updated by ivy:
URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=a8a18eeb5e1711ad27c3ee20eb342b73d3badffa
commit a8a18eeb5e1711ad27c3ee20eb342b73d3badffa
Author: Lexi Winter <ivy@FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2025-09-10 18:38:01 +0000
Commit: Lexi Winter <ivy@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2025-09-10 18:38:01 +0000
packages: Turn off MANSPLITPKG by default
Manpages are very small, and having a separate manpages package for
every base package is quite annoying for users. Turn this option
off by default.
Discussed with: bapt
Reviewed by: manu, emaste
MFC after: 3 days
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D52417
---
UPDATING | 6 ++++++
share/man/man5/src.conf.5 | 4 ++--
share/mk/bsd.opts.mk | 2 +-
3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING
index 57f6b2e66387..51589f13e139 100644
--- a/UPDATING
+++ b/UPDATING
@@ -27,6 +27,12 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 16.x IS SLOW:
world, or to merely disable the most expensive debugging functionality
at runtime, run "ln -s 'abort:false,junk:false' /etc/malloc.conf".)
+20250907:
+ The MANSPLITPKG knob has been turned off by default, so pkgbase builds
+ will no longer generate "-man" subpackages; instead the manpages will
+ be shipped in the packages they belong to. If you want to continue
+ building split man packages, set WITH_MANSPLITPKG=1.
+
20250905:
FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT.
diff --git a/share/man/man5/src.conf.5 b/share/man/man5/src.conf.5
index a1abbcbda01e..ded16c9cf436 100644
--- a/share/man/man5/src.conf.5
+++ b/share/man/man5/src.conf.5
@@ -1215,8 +1215,8 @@ is set explicitly)
.It Va WITHOUT_MANCOMPRESS
Do not install compressed man pages.
Only the uncompressed versions will be installed.
-.It Va WITHOUT_MANSPLITPKG
-Do not split man pages into their own packages during make package.
+.It Va WITH_MANSPLITPKG
+Split man pages into their own packages during make package.
.It Va WITHOUT_MAN_UTILS
Do not build utilities for manual pages,
.Xr apropos 1 ,
diff --git a/share/mk/bsd.opts.mk b/share/mk/bsd.opts.mk
index 439924d0d596..66eb427c3505 100644
--- a/share/mk/bsd.opts.mk
+++ b/share/mk/bsd.opts.mk
@@ -60,7 +60,6 @@ __DEFAULT_YES_OPTIONS = \
MAKE_CHECK_USE_SANDBOX \
MAN \
MANCOMPRESS \
- MANSPLITPKG \
NIS \
NLS \
OPENSSH \
@@ -78,6 +77,7 @@ __DEFAULT_NO_OPTIONS = \
CCACHE_BUILD \
CTF \
INSTALL_AS_USER \
+ MANSPLITPKG \
REPRODUCIBLE_BUILD \
RETPOLINE \
RUN_TESTS \