svn commit: r263110 - head/share/man/man4

Joel Dahl joel at vnode.se
Fri Mar 14 12:21:30 UTC 2014


14 mar 2014 kl. 10:13 skrev Christian Brueffer <brueffer at FreeBSD.org>:

> On 3/14/14 2:54 AM, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
>> John Nielsen wrote this message on Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 16:28 -0600:
>>> On Mar 13, 2014, at 10:19 AM, John-Mark Gurney <jmg at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Author: jmg
>>>> Date: Thu Mar 13 16:19:36 2014
>>>> New Revision: 263110
>>>> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/263110
>>>> 
>>>> Log:
>>>> remove link to the missing AMD Geode LX SB man page... we can add it
>>>> back once someone cares enough to write one..
>>> 
>>> You mean like this one?
>>> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/share/man/man4/man4.i386/glxsb.4
>> 
>> The problems of checking on an amd64 box... :(
>> 
>> Actually, how are we suppose to handle links to arch dependant man
>> pages in arch independant man pages?  I did this check on an amd64 box,
>> so the page glxsb didn't get installed...  Should we just always
>> install these man pages on all arches then?  Or are we fine w/
>> references to non-existant pages (on some arches)?
>> 
>> Or should glxsb.4 be moved to an arch independant dir?
>> 
> 
> I wonder if it makes sense to keep arch-dependent man directories at
> all.  I.e., if I prepare an ARM disk image on my amd64 laptop, I really
> want to have the arm manpages available on that amd64 box.
> 
> Does anyone see a reason not to move man4/man4.${ARCH}/*.4 to man4?
> We're talking about 60 manpages here, so space is not really an issue.

Sounds good to me.

—
Joel



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