#2120: Outdated policy text on Man-DB page --------------------------------------------+------------------------------- Reporter: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Owner: [email protected] Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: 6.4 Component: Book | Version: SVN Severity: normal | Resolution: Keywords: | --------------------------------------------+------------------------------- Comment (by willimm):
Analising Colin's letter, we see that: * Man-DB 2.5.1 can display UTF-8 pages, so that's why we don't need the convert-mans script. * Colin says he can add code to Man-DB that automaticly detects the /usr/man and the /usr/local/man symlinks, and that means we don't need the first change for Man-DB. * He also, for us, added the --with-browser=lynx --with-col=col --with- vgrind=vgrind --with-grap=grap options, so we don't need the second change too. * He recommends adding GDBM along with Berkely-DB, and using the --with- db=gdbm switch. And it's going to be the default in 2.5.3. * You can now remove convert-mans now, with the exception of a few hopelessly misencoded pages that are lost causes, Man-DB can understand all languages and formats. * He is fixing the broken Norwegian support in 2.5.3. * He is happy making Man-DB compatible with Groff-UTF8. So that was my analis. -- Ticket URL: <http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/ticket/2120#comment:3> LFS Trac <http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/> Linux From Scratch: Your Distro, Your Rules. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-book FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
