Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 03:13:22 +0000 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> 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: <20000722031322.I2302@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> 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:
> 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.
How about this approach?
Index: Makefile
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/share/man/man8/Makefile,v
retrieving revision 1.16
diff -u -r1.16 Makefile
--- Makefile 2000/05/04 17:36:28 1.16
+++ Makefile 2000/07/22 02:58:05
@@ -19,4 +19,11 @@
maninstall:: _SUBDIR
.endif
+.if exists(${.CURDIR}/../../../release/sysinstall/sysinstall.8)
+sysinstall.8:
+ cp ${.CURDIR}/../../../release/sysinstall/sysinstall.8 ${.CURDIR}
+
+MAN8+= sysinstall.8
+.endif
+
.include <bsd.prog.mk>
===================================================================
Completely untested. . .
> 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. :-)
I had a look at the stub idea. If the above doesn't float your boat,
how about adding the attached file as src/share/man/man8/sysinstall.8
and updating the Makefile as necessary.
N
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.\" $FreeBSD: src/share/man/man8/rc.8,v 1.11 2000/07/19 19:08:08 ben Exp $
.\"
.Dd July 21, 2000
.Dt SYSINSTALL 8
.Os FreeBSD
.Sh NAME
.Nm sysinstall
.Nd system installation and configuration tool
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
is a utility for installing and configuring
.Fx
systems. A more detailed manual page is included with the
.Nm
source code. If you have downloaded the source code then the following
commands will update
.Nm
and install the manual page.
.Bd -literal -offset indent
# cd /usr/src/release/sysinstall
# make all install
.Ed
.Pp
This manual page will then be replaced by the complete
.Nm
manual.
.Sh AUTHORS
.An Jordan K. Hubbard Aq jkh@FreeBSD.org
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