Upstream TeX Live man pages

Suppose we have installed the upstream TeX Live from TUG to /usr/local/texlive/20XX/ and the executables are in /usr/local/texlive/20XX/bin/amd64-freebsd.

• # ln -s ../../texmf-dist/doc/man /usr/local/texlive/2024/bin/amd64-freebsd/man

This allows manpath find the man pages.

• # find /usr/local/texlive/2024/texmf-dist/doc/man/ -type f -exec /root/npbin/tlsoman2hardlink {} \;

where the script /root/npbin/tlsoman2hardlink

#!/bin/sh

if grep "^\.so" "$1" >/dev/null 2>&1 && [ "$(wc -l < "$1")" -eq 1 ] ; then
  f=$1
  cd "$(dirname "$f")" || exit
  ff=$(cat "$f")
  set $ff
  rm -f "$f"
  echo replacing "$f" with a hard link
  ln "$(basename "$2")" "$f" || echo "$ff" > "$f"
  chmod 644 "$f"
fi

replaces .so's (which practically not supported by mandoc) with hard links.

This command should be run after every upgrade.