Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 08:30:08 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: Christian Brueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com>, John Nielsen <john@jnielsen.net>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r263110 - head/share/man/man4 Message-ID: <C52AC38B-8430-4EE3-BE30-51A21B472B42@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5322C83F.6060109@FreeBSD.org> References: <201403131619.s2DGJax1071196@svn.freebsd.org> <4D0B04BD-4EF6-4963-941E-012B81F8DFAB@jnielsen.net> <20140314015438.GO32089@funkthat.com> <5322C83F.6060109@FreeBSD.org>
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On Mar 14, 2014, at 3:13 AM, Christian Brueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org> = wrote: > On 3/14/14 2:54 AM, John-Mark Gurney wrote: >> John Nielsen wrote this message on Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 16:28 -0600: >>> On Mar 13, 2014, at 10:19 AM, John-Mark Gurney <jmg@freebsd.org> = wrote: >>>=20 >>>> Author: jmg >>>> Date: Thu Mar 13 16:19:36 2014 >>>> New Revision: 263110 >>>> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/263110 >>>>=20 >>>> Log: >>>> remove link to the missing AMD Geode LX SB man page... we can add = it >>>> back once someone cares enough to write one.. >>>=20 >>> You mean like this one? >>> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/share/man/man4/man4.i386/glxsb.4 >>=20 >> The problems of checking on an amd64 box... :( >>=20 >> Actually, how are we suppose to handle links to arch dependant man >> pages in arch independant man pages? I did this check on an amd64 = box, >> so the page glxsb didn't get installed... Should we just always >> install these man pages on all arches then? Or are we fine w/ >> references to non-existant pages (on some arches)? >>=20 >> Or should glxsb.4 be moved to an arch independant dir? >>=20 >=20 > I wonder if it makes sense to keep arch-dependent man directories at > all. I.e., if I prepare an ARM disk image on my amd64 laptop, I = really > want to have the arm manpages available on that amd64 box. >=20 > Does anyone see a reason not to move man4/man4.${ARCH}/*.4 to man4? > We're talking about 60 manpages here, so space is not really an issue. Historically there was the separation because xp on one platform might = be radically different from xp on another platform. The other reason was = confusion because it wasn=92t always clear if device foo actually worked on = platform X. Do we have any collisions like that? If so, we need to resolve those = first. Also, it would be good to tag the ones that are arm specific as such = somehow. Warner
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