Re: MKCATPAGES and MANINSTALL

[Iain Hibbert <plunky%rya-online.net@localhost>]

On Wed, 15 Feb 2012, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:

> the recent problems in pkgsrc with BSD-Makefile using packages is a

just to note, Imakefile also seems affected (see graphics/xv)

> consequence of two different variables being used to control whether cat
> pages should be installed or not.
>
> MKCATPAGES is used to specify whether cat pages should be built. That
> was changed to "no".
>
> MANINSTALL lists what variations are to be *installed*. If
> MKCATPAGES=no, it simply skips them. This still defaults to
> "maninstall catinstall htmlinstall". This is the value used by pkgsrc to
> decide if cat pages should be filtered out of the PLIST or not.
>
> Short term, MANINSTALL needs to follow MKCATPAGES. But the more
> interesting question is, if both ways are still needed and desirable.

seems to me, that pkgsrc should be using a different method to filter
pages out of the PLIST..

iain