diff --git a/base/man-pages/inst-min.patch b/base/man-pages/inst-min.patch
index fd615041f..b8252b14e 100644
--- a/base/man-pages/inst-min.patch
+++ b/base/man-pages/inst-min.patch
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 # This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
 #
 # Filename: package/.../man-pages/inst-min.patch
+# Copyright (C) 2009 The OpenSDE Project
 # Copyright (C) 2004 - 2006 The T2 SDE Project
 # Copyright (C) 1998 - 2003 Clifford Wolf
 #
@@ -20,9 +21,9 @@ Only install the new stuff ...
 
  - Clifford
 
---- ./Makefile.orig	2005-01-10 10:27:18.000000000 -0300
-+++ ./Makefile	2005-01-10 10:27:22.000000000 -0300
-@@ -17,10 +17,8 @@
+--- ./Makefile.orig	2009-07-25 09:53:21.000000000 +0300
++++ ./Makefile	2009-08-13 21:40:45.000000000 +0300
+@@ -19,10 +19,8 @@
  screen:
  	-mkdir not_installed
  	for i in man?/*; do \
@@ -35,11 +36,11 @@ Only install the new stuff ...
  	done
  
  remove:
-@@ -52,6 +50,7 @@
- 	for i in man? man??; do \
- 		install -d -m 755 $(MANDIR)/"$$i"; \
- 		install -m 644 "$$i"/* $(MANDIR)/"$$i"; \
+@@ -53,6 +51,7 @@
+ 	for i in man?; do \
+ 		install -d -m 755 $(DESTDIR)$(MANDIR)/"$$i" || exit $$?; \
+ 		install -m 644 "$$i"/* $(DESTDIR)$(MANDIR)/"$$i" || exit $$?; \
 +		true; \
  	done; \
- 	rm -f $(README) $(README).gz $(README).bz2
  
+ # someone might also want to look at /var/catman/cat2 or so ...
diff --git a/base/man-pages/man-pages.conf b/base/man-pages/man-pages.conf
index 2bfd60fbc..b1a496c03 100644
--- a/base/man-pages/man-pages.conf
+++ b/base/man-pages/man-pages.conf
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
 #
 # Filename: package/.../man-pages/man-pages.conf
-# Copyright (C) 2006 The OpenSDE Project
+# Copyright (C) 2006 - 2009 The OpenSDE Project
 # Copyright (C) 2004 - 2006 The T2 SDE Project
 # Copyright (C) 1998 - 2003 Clifford Wolf
 #
@@ -16,4 +16,3 @@
 
 makeopt=
 var_insert makeinstopt ' ' "screen"
-var_append makeinstopt ' ' "prefix=$root"