Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 04:54:50 -0500 From: Mike Pritchard <mpp@mppsystems.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: docs/19818: /usr/share/man/man8/sysinstall.8 missing Message-ID: <20000711045450.A17137@mppsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <200007110720.AAA82411@freefall.freebsd.org>; from jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com on Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 12:20:06AM -0700 References: <200007110720.AAA82411@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 12:20:06AM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > The following reply was made to PR docs/19818; it has been noted by GNATS. > > From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com> > To: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> > > > > sysinstall.8 man page is not in distribution; need to dig install > > > sources to find it under /usr/src/release/sysinstall/ > > > > This is right. Is there any reason we don't do this? Otherwise, the > > attached patch should do it. > > Well, we don't do it because sysinstall isn't in the default build > path, is never touched by "make world" or "make distribute", and hence > never makes it into the man pages distribution with all the other > manual pages, even with Nik's patch to the Makefile. > > I've thought of various types of evil hacks to work around this over > the years, but they always seemed more evil than simply omitting the > man page. :-) > > - Jordan How about some simple stub man page in /usr/src/share/man/man8 that tells the user how to find the real man page if they are daring enough to try do something more exotic than: # /stand/sysinstall ? That might not be a bad idea, since you could also point them to some set of instructions that tells them how to rebuild sysinstall if need be, since sysinstall doesn't get updated normally. -Mike -- Mike Pritchard mpp@FreeBSD.org or mpp@mppsystems.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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