git: 7e9f0bf1c05c - stable/15 - packages: Turn off MANSPLITPKG by default
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Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2025 01:19:50 UTC
The branch stable/15 has been updated by ivy:
URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=7e9f0bf1c05c3e0de161c4ea9f0dfd71791f8957
commit 7e9f0bf1c05c3e0de161c4ea9f0dfd71791f8957
Author: Lexi Winter <ivy@FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2025-09-10 18:38:01 +0000
Commit: Lexi Winter <ivy@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2025-09-19 01:17:27 +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
(cherry picked from commit a8a18eeb5e1711ad27c3ee20eb342b73d3badffa)
---
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 ae4f14a24858..fa8ef72082c1 100644
--- a/UPDATING
+++ b/UPDATING
@@ -12,6 +12,12 @@ Items affecting the ports and packages system can be found in
/usr/ports/UPDATING. Please read that file before updating system packages
and/or ports.
+20250918:
+ 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.
+
20250916:
If SRCCONF is unset and a file named src.conf is present at
the top of the source tree, it will now be used instead of
diff --git a/share/man/man5/src.conf.5 b/share/man/man5/src.conf.5
index 648249148817..7ba8b4ac5e8f 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 2251b499ffdc..73ebf82c258f 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 \
@@ -79,6 +78,7 @@ __DEFAULT_NO_OPTIONS = \
CCACHE_BUILD \
CTF \
INSTALL_AS_USER \
+ MANSPLITPKG \
RETPOLINE \
RUN_TESTS \
STALE_STAGED \