dealing with catdir in postinstall

[Christopher Faylor]

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?

cgf