Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 23:29:24 +0200 From: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Use of -CURRENT manual pages in our docs Message-ID: <20021018232924.G50649@abigail.blackend.org> In-Reply-To: <20021018211726.GA2822@hades.hell.gr>; from keramida@freebsd.org on Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 12:17:26AM %2B0300 References: <20021018212220.B50649@abigail.blackend.org> <20021018194751.GG16196@hades.hell.gr> <20021018223014.E50649@abigail.blackend.org> <20021018224804.F50649@abigail.blackend.org> <20021018211726.GA2822@hades.hell.gr>
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On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 12:17:26AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2002-10-18 22:48, Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 10:47:51PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > > So what happens when today's current becomes tomorrow's stable? > > > I hope we won't have to rename all the &man.current.foo.X; entities to > > > &man.stable.foo.X; :-( > > > > However, indeed, we should avoid &man.current etc. for base system > > manpages. Tell me what you think about it, since it's easy to fix > > man-refs in that way... > > That's what I originally meant. We shouldn't overuse &man.current.*; > entities. I'm ok with that, if it's also added explicitly as a > comment to the file. Something similar to the following should be > more than enough: > > Whenever the need arises for a manpage reference that is only > meaningful for FreeBSD-current, the convention is to add an > entity to this file of the form &man.current.foo.1;. After a > while, when all required parts have been MFCed, you are > expected to change the documents to use &man.foo.1; and update > this file removing &man.current.foo.1;. > > I would even go as far as making the &man.current.*; entities a > separate file, at this point. But this is your call, and still just > an opinion. > I just reverted a part of the changes, the -CURRENT manual pages are "now" used in the same way I did for ports ones. Only the attribute 'current' is added in man-refs.ent, and nothing to change in sgml files. For the moment, it's the best solution in waiting for a convention on the manual page entities. And the convention should lead to a split of the man-refs.ent, but as I said in a previous mail, I prefer to wait and see... :) Marc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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