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Date:      Mon, 27 Oct 2014 18:38:43 -0700
From:      NGie Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>
To:        NGie Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>,  "freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Arch" <arch@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: boot man pages installed four times..
Message-ID:  <CAGHfRMBDdnNZyy=zM%2BmvNiTcEAjP9SXfDnJtwwa2-08Os5RMvw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20141028012331.GT82214@funkthat.com>
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On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 6:23 PM, John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com> wrote:
> NGie Cooper wrote this message on Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 17:25 -0700:
>> On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 4:14 PM, John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com> wrote:
>> > So, our loader man pages are currently installed four different times
>> > during installworld...  Once each durning sys/boot/userboot/userboot,
>> > sys/boot/amd64/efi, sys/boot/i386/loader and sys/boot/i386/zfsloader
>> >
>> > This is because sys/boot/common/Makefile.inc defines the man pages, and
>> > each of these locations include that Makefile...
>> >
>> > It seems like the logical thing to do is to create a sys/boot/man that
>> > only installed man pages...  This will partly move us to always
>> > installing all man pages on all archs...
>>
>> Should this manpages just be installed as part of
>> share/man/man<section> instead?
>
> That would involve moving the man pages from sys/boot into share/man
> which IMO doesn't make much sense...  Yes, they could be installed
> from where ever we want, but they are usually installed from where
> they reside..
>
> Looks like only atf is installing from share/man when their pages are
> located else where...  We shouldn't introduce more, and atf should be
> fixed...  and it's only doing it for two man pages...
>
> Hmm... atf-test-case.4 seems to be in the wrong section too...  section
> for is for devices and device drivers, but atf-test-case doesn't have
> any relation to the kernel...  It should probably be moved into section
> 7...

Yes, I thought so too. Please file a bug and CC both jmmv and myself.
Thanks!



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