Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 08:17:55 -0500 From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) To: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with packages, and general third party software. Message-ID: <199509261317.IAA09711@bonkers.taronga.com> In-Reply-To: <3495.812109120@palmer.demon.co.uk> References: <21685.812106797@time.cdrom.com>
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This was originally on hackers, but seems more appropriate to doc. >AMANDA can be a lot smarter (as the porter, I am well aware that it is >not the best possible use of pkg_add), but amanda can not be installed >without a lot of config file editing anyhow (disk lists, tape configs, >etc). Sure. There's this general problem here in that the "binary" distribution seems to have left some stuff behind in the sources. >Adding stuff to /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf is something >I'd rather leave to the end user as they are really site-specific >(especially with AMANDA where the port number is not assigned but >chosen by the site admin) The problem is the package doesn't include the sample configuration (amanda-2.2.6/example) or docs (amanda-2.2.6/docs). And it's not just packages that do this... there's a lot of these oversights. For example, a binary install should include /usr/src/sbin/sendmail/cf probably under /usr/share somewhere... Oh yes, while on the subject of figuring out how it all goes together, the man page for "amd" points to a document (Amd - The 4.4 BSD Automounter) that doesn't seem to be in /usr/share/docs. Did this fall out? I had to look at the config on freefall to figure out how to set amd up. Ah, there it is, in /usr/src/usr.sbin/amd/doc... where does it put it? Oh! It's TeXinfo... hmmm... the man page doesn't tell you how to get this document. OK, I'll start using "info". Maybe the handbook addresses this... it doesn't seem to be in the binary install either... Where's the handbook get put? I guess it's not ready for installation... /usr/src/share/doc/Makefile doesn't reference it or FAQ at all. Guess I'll texi2html all this stuff. And how do you turn on caching of formatted man pages? Groff is kind of slow on a 386/20. <grin>
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