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Re: dealing with catdir in postinstall


On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 09:12:56PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 06:05:05PM -0800, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
> >I've been rewriting cygwin-doc's postinstall to remove the
> >bash-specific syntax and came up with this script to take care of
> >removing (possibly stale) preformatted man pages.  I was thinking that
> >this is a possible problem for any packages that include man pages, and
> >so maybe it would be best to come up with something like
> >_update_info_dir.  Unfortunately it would be complicated, unless we did
> >something like "remove all preformatted pages after any update", or
> >somehow kept a list of updated packages to zgrep for man pages.
> 
> Doesn't man check creation times of the man page versus the formatted
> page and regen as needed?

I'm checking this out and... yes it does. 
I've been wasting my time. :)


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