Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 23:46:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Pepper <pepper@reppep.com> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Cc: dougb@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/68843: Dates on rc.subr(8) & rc(8) are whack. Message-ID: <20040709034630.817FC5C2A@guest.reppep.com> Resent-Message-ID: <200407090350.i693oLNx033461@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 68843 >Category: docs >Synopsis: Dates on rc.subr(8) & rc(8) are whack. >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-doc >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Fri Jul 09 03:50:21 GMT 2004 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Chris Pepper >Release: FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE i386 >Organization: >Environment: System: FreeBSD guest.reppep.com 5.2.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE #1: Thu Jun 17 23:50:42 EDT 2004 root@guest.reppep.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/REPPEP5 i386 >Description: The manual pages for rc & rc.subr have very strange dates. >How-To-Repeat: Look at the last line of the rc & rc.subr manual pages on a variety of recent systems, including the web site: pepper@www:~$ uname -a FreeBSD www.reppep.com 4.10-STABLE FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE #15: Sun May 30 22:18:46 EDT 2004 root@www.reppep.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/REPPEP i386 pepper@www:~$ man rc.subr|tail -1 FreeBSD 4.10 January 6, 2004 FreeBSD 4.10 pepper@www:~$ man rc|tail -1 FreeBSD 4.10 December 11, 1993 FreeBSD 4.10 pepper@guest:~$ uname -a FreeBSD guest.reppep.com 5.2.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE #1: Thu Jun 17 23:50:42 EDT 2004 root@guest.reppep.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/REPPEP5 i386 pepper@guest:~$ man rc.subr|tail -1 FreeBSD 5.2.1 April 18, 2002 FreeBSD 5.2.1 pepper@guest:~$ man rc|tail -1 FreeBSD 5.2.1 November 4, 2002 FreeBSD 5.2.1 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rc.subr&sektion=8 says: FreeBSD 4.10 April 18, 2002 FreeBSD 4.10 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rc&sektion=8 says: FreeBSD 4.10 November 4, 2002 FreeBSD 4.10 And the hypertext man pages can't find rc.subr(8) in FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE or FreeBSD 4.10-stable, which is illogical since the manual page with no version specification claims to be from 4.10: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rc.subr&apropos=0&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+4.10-RELEASE&format=html http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rc.subr&apropos=0&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+4.10-stable&format=html >Fix: Reconcile the date lines (or entities?) used for manual page versions. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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