Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 07:47:31 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: orphan .Xr in manual pages Message-ID: <60474.1587368851@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <430119cd-2ef1-75c8-4922-c9f47d026880@grosbein.net> References: <30493.1586018580@critter.freebsd.dk> <430119cd-2ef1-75c8-4922-c9f47d026880@grosbein.net>
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-------- In message <430119cd-2ef1-75c8-4922-c9f47d026880@grosbein.net>, Eugene Gro= sbein writes: >04.04.2020 23:43, Poul-Henning Kamp =D0=BF=D0=B8=D1=88=D0=B5=D1=82: >> List from a pretty virgin 12.1 system here: > >[skip] > >> ./man8/mdconfig.8 .Xr vnconfig 8 not f= ound > >How should we deal with similar historic cases? > >HISTORY > The mdconfig utility first appeared in FreeBSD 5.0 as a cleaner > replacement for the vn(4) and vnconfig(8) combo. > >For now, vn(4) is an alias for md(4) and vnconfig(8) is an alias for mdco= nfig(8), >so they are not exactly "broken links". I think the reference and the symlink should just be summarily removed. -- = Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe = Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence= .
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