packages: Add a mandoc package
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Authored by ivy on Sep 15 2025, 11:15 PM.

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rG957875ebcf3d: packages: Add a mandoc package
rGea5e50c2985b: packages: Add a mandoc package

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Move mandoc to its own package, so users can install it independently
of -utilities. Also add a pkg-trigger(5) to run makewhatis when new
manpages are installed, so that apropos(1) works.

The mandoc package is in the minimal set, since we also ship manpages
in minimal.

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ivy created this revision.Sep 15 2025, 11:15 PM

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ivy requested review of this revision.Sep 15 2025, 11:15 PM

Harbormaster completed remote builds in B67063: Diff 162121.Sep 15 2025, 11:15 PM

note: to test this you need a pkg(8) with the patch at https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/pull/2516. however if the user doesn't have that patch, everything will still work fine, they just won't get the mandoc database built, which is the same as the current behaviour.

use path_glob in the trigger rather than path

Harbormaster completed remote builds in B67109: Diff 162216.Sep 17 2025, 2:29 AM

bapt accepted this revision.Thu, Sep 18, 8:14 AM

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Thu, Sep 18, 8:14 AM

Closed by commit rGea5e50c2985b: packages: Add a mandoc package (authored by ivy). · Explain WhyThu, Sep 18, 9:26 AM

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ziaee added inline comments.Thu, Sep 18, 11:28 AM

usr.bin/mandoc/mandoc.ucl
16	I think it needs to `periodic weekly`. If you look at the weekly target it's actually doing all kinds of stuff. Sorry I didn't get to this in time.

ivy added inline comments.Thu, Sep 18, 11:34 AM

usr.bin/mandoc/mandoc.ucl
16	we don't want to invoke weekly here, because that's rebuilding everything including ports, but we only need to do base manpages, and (as far as i know) we don't ship localised manpages in base. we should do `/usr/share/openssl/man`, but i wonder if it makes more sense to do that in the OpenSSL package, i'll have a think.