Correct way to install preprocessed man pages

[olli hauer]

On 2013-05-01 15:48, Jake Smith wrote:
> On 2013-05-01 14:09, Jake Smith wrote:
>> On 2013-05-01 14:00, Dominic Fandrey wrote:
>>> On 01/05/2013 14:29, Jake Smith wrote:
>>>> I am putting a new port together, but the source for the man pages is not provided in the source tar for the package (and I can't find a public repo). Instead only the "preprocessed" version is included.
>>>
>>> Do you mean it's already compressed or it's already formatted? That
>>> would be odd, because I think that should tie in with TERM and PAGER.
>>> So it must be considered broken by design.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>
>> It's already formatted, sorry I realise the term "preprocessed"
>> doesn't really mean anything. If you cat the man page file it looks
>> like a correctly formatted man page should. I don't have access to the
>> original man page source.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jake
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> 
> 
> Just a bit more information to help explain what I'm on about.
> 
> The port is for MySQL ZRM, the source can be downloaded from http://www.zmanda.com/downloads/community/ZRM-MySQL/2.2/Source/MySQL-zrm-2.2.0.tar.gz and an example of the kind of man page I am talking about in the tar is './MySQL-zrm-2.2.0/usr/share/man/man1/mysql-zrm.1'.
> 
> Thanks for your time!
> Jake

Hm, the files are catman(1) pages not man(1) pages.
I suspect the only way is to ask upstream to provide the man pages.