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authorIngo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>2014-12-09 12:05:44 +0000
committerIngo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>2014-12-09 12:05:44 +0000
commitab4e7a49f096d1ea4665f7364cdae64026c34c6e (patch)
tree8263005931e9eb3e738aad706c61c4cceac15225 /INSTALL
parentc03724b201b3df318359b3871afb7b444226e1a4 (diff)
downloadmandoc-ab4e7a49f096d1ea4665f7364cdae64026c34c6e.tar.gz
more release preparations
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+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -155,11 +155,11 @@ Deployment requires the following steps:
1. Build and install mandoc as described above in steps 2 to 5
below "Installation".
-2. If you system uses manpath(1), make sure it is configured
+2. If your system uses manpath(1), make sure it is configured
correctly, in particular, it returns all directory trees where
manual pages are installed. If your system uses man.conf(5), make
-sure it contains a "_whatdb" for each directory tree, and the order
-of these lines meets your wishes.
+sure it contains a "_whatdb" line for each directory tree, and the
+order of these lines meets your wishes.
3. Run the command "sudo makewhatis" to build mandoc.db(5) databases
in all the directory trees configured in step 2.
@@ -168,6 +168,9 @@ At this point, your new man(1), apropos(1), and whatis(1) should work.
Otherwise, please look at <http://mdocml.bsd.lv/contact.html>, both
for help and to have these instructions improved.
+Whenever installing new manual pages, re-run makewhatis(8) to update
+the databases, or man(1) will not find the new pages.
+
Deployment using your system's native man(1) viewer
---------------------------------------------------