docs/85986: FreeBSD keyword missing if you display security(7) with apropos

Giorgos Keramidas keramida at freebsd.org
Wed May 10 20:00:54 UTC 2006


The following reply was made to PR docs/85986; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at freebsd.org>
To: Matthias Schmidt <schmidtm at mathematik.uni-marburg.de>,
        "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon at freebsd.org>,
        Murray Stokely <murray at freebsdmall.com>
Cc: bug-followup at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: docs/85986: FreeBSD keyword missing if you display security(7) with apropos
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 22:58:40 +0300

 > --- /usr/src/share/man/man7/security.7  Sun Jul 24 12:42:21 2005
 > +++ security.7  Sun Sep 11 22:05:38 2005
 > @@ -28,8 +28,7 @@
 >  .Os
 >  .Sh NAME
 >  .Nm security
 > -.Nd introduction to security under
 > -.Fx
 > +.Nd introduction to security under FreeBSD
 
 > From: Murray Stokely <murray at freebsdmall.com>
 > To: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon at FreeBSD.org>
 > Cc: freebsd-doc at FreeBSD.org, bug-followup at freebsd.org
 > Subject: docs/85986: Re: docs/85986: FreeBSD keyword missing if you display security(7) with apropos
 > Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 18:41:54 -0800
 >
 > I think we should just submit the patch as is rather than fixing
 > makewhatis(1).  tuning(7) written by the same author just uses
 > 'FreeBSD' instead of .Fx and therefore shows up properly.
 >
 > I could not find any other examples of man pages that have this
 > problem, leading me to conclude that hacking up makewhatis would be
 > overengineering the solution.
 
 Yes, please.  I'd prefer just submitting the patch too.
 
 If there's no objection to committing it and nobody else beats me to it,
 I'd like to commit it in a couple of days...
 



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