On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 11:35:00PM -0400, parv wrote:
> after upgrading to 4-stable-2002.05.17.16.15.01 (4.6-rc) -- from
> 4-stable-2002.05.02.08.43.44 (4.6-prerelease) -- i see double
> entries for the same section of a man page, as now there exist
> compressed (old) & uncompressed (new) versions....
> 
> -r--r--r--   2 root     wheel         999 May 19 12:13 /usr/share/man/man1/apropos.1
> -r--r--r--   1 root     wheel         605 Jan 20  2001 
>/usr/share/man/man1/apropos.1.gz
> -r--r--r--   1 root     wheel       30586 May 19 12:12 /usr/share/man/man1/ar.1
> -r--r--r--   1 root     wheel       10137 Aug 15  2001 /usr/share/man/man1/ar.1.gz
> -r--r--r--   1 root     wheel        8458 May 19 12:18 
>/usr/share/man/man1/asn1parse.1
> -r--r--r--   1 root     wheel        3657 May  3 17:32 
>/usr/share/man/man1/asn1parse.1.gz
> -r--r--r--   4 root     wheel        5650 May 19 12:15 /usr/share/man/man1/at.1
> -r--r--r--   1 root     wheel        2368 Mar 17 01:36 /usr/share/man/man1/at.1.gz
> -r--r--r--   2 root     wheel        3188 May 19 12:15 /usr/share/man/man1/basename.1
> -r--r--r--   1 root     wheel        1582 Sep 20  2001 
>/usr/share/man/man1/basename.1.gz
> -r--r--r--   1 root     wheel       34468 May 19 12:12 /usr/share/man/man1/bc.1
> -r--r--r--   1 root     wheel       11774 Mar  8  2001 /usr/share/man/man1/bc.1.gz
> 
> ...there are total of 4298 entries like above.  i didn't encounter
> any doublets w/ 4.6-prerelease during regular use of man, only
> now in 4.6-rc.
> 
> "man -a -w ar" gives...
> 
> /usr/share/man/cat1/ar.1.gz (source: /usr/share/man/man1/ar.1)
> /usr/share/man/cat1/ar.1.gz (source: /usr/share/man/man1/ar.1.gz)
> /usr/share/man/man1aout/ar.1aout
> /usr/share/man/man1aout/ar.1aout.gz
> /usr/share/man/cat4/i386/ar.4.gz (source: /usr/share/man/man4/i386/ar.4)
> /usr/share/man/cat4/i386/ar.4.gz (source: /usr/share/man/man4/i386/ar.4.gz)
> /usr/share/man/man4/ar.4.gz
> /usr/share/man/man5/ar.5
> /usr/share/man/man5/ar.5.gz
> 
> 
> ..."man 4 ar" (yes, that is w/o "-a" option) produces ar(4) page twice.
> 
> 
> below is part of /etc/make.conf which may be of some siginificance...
> 
> INSTALL=        install -C
> NOMANCOMPRESS=  false
> 
> 
> ...any ideas what went wrong and/or how to avoid it in future?
> 
NOMANCOMPRESS, if defined (whether it's "false" or not), means "do
not compress manual pages".


Cheers,
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