web commit by JeremyReed: reply about installation of basewiki

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@@ -46,6 +46,15 @@ I was thinking of making a list of desired documents from the html directory to
 > I don't understand why you're installing the basewiki files manually;
 > ikiwiki has a Makefile that will do this for you. --[[Joey]]
 
+>> The Makefile's install doesn't do what I want so I use different installer for it.
+>> It assumes wrong location for man pages for me. (And it should consider using INSTALLVENDORMAN1DIR and
+>> MAN1EXT but I don't know about section 8 since I don't know of perl value for that.)
+>> I don't want w3m cgi installed; it is optional for my package.
+>> I will just patch for that instead of using my own installer.
+>> Note: I am working on the pkgsrc package build specification for this. This is for creating
+>> packages for NetBSD, DragonFly and other systems that use pkgsrc package system.
+>> --JeremyReed
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 # Upgrade steps
@@ -189,6 +198,9 @@ The Ikiwiki docs about this requirement got removed in Revision 4367. There shou
 
 > There is a page, [[install]] documents that 3.05 is needed.
 
+>> Sorry, I missed that. With hundreds of wikipages it is hard to read all of them.
+>> I am updating the download page now to link to it.
+
 I am now using ikiwiki 2.6.1 on my testing system.
 
 --JeremyReed