./wip/man-db, Manual pager and related man page utilities

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Branch: CURRENT, Version: 2.7.5, Package name: man-db-2.7.5, Maintainer: reed

man-db is a collection of tools for using the online manuals. man-db uses
a Berkeley DB database instead of the traditional flat-text whatis
databases. It includes:

apropos - search the manual page names and descriptions
catman - create or update the pre-formatted manual pages
man - an interface to the on-line reference manuals
mandb - create or update the manual page index caches
manpath - determine search path for manual pages
whatis - search the manual page names
zsoelim - satisfy .so requests in roff input

This version of the man suite is maintained by Colin Watson.


Required to build:
[pkgtools/cwrappers]

Master sites:

Filesize: 1470.145 KB

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   2012-10-03 17:09:47 by Aleksej Saushev | Files touched by this commit (124) 
Log message:
Drop superfluous PKG_DESTDIR_SUPPORT, "user-destdir" is default these days.
Mark packages that don't or might probably not have staged installation.
   2009-10-11 12:44:55 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (222) 
Log message:
Remove obsolete @dirrm lines.
   2006-10-29 09:32:37 by Sergey Svishchev | Files touched by this commit (192) 
Log message:
Delint:
- convert spaces to tabs (pkglint --autofix)
- set, not append to USE_LANGUAGES
   2006-09-09 04:49:32 by OBATA Akio | Files touched by this commit (37) 
Log message:
Rename variable MAKEFILE to MAKE_FILE.
   2006-03-14 02:27:57 by Johnny C. Lam | Files touched by this commit (82) 
Log message:
Catch up to modern pkginstall framework: USE_PKGINSTALL has been dead
for a while now, and *_EXTRA_TMPL are generally not needed anymore.
   2005-12-05 23:27:44 by Roland Illig | Files touched by this commit (61) 
Log message:
Ran "pkglint --autofix", which fixed some quoting issues in MAKE_ENV,
CONFIGURE_ARGS, FILES_SUBST and the like.
   2005-10-10 16:00:13 by Roland Illig | Files touched by this commit (9) 
Log message:
Don't use ${PKGNAME} in the definition of WRKSRC, since that might
contain the PKGREVISION. ${PKGNAME_NOREV} is a better choice.
   2005-09-28 08:41:20 by Roland Illig | Files touched by this commit (179) 
Log message:
Added RMD160 checksums.