Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 20:35:34 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> To: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@nitro.dk> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: .Xr references to ports in man pages Message-ID: <20030429173534.GB56779@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <20030429155704.GF390@nitro.dk> References: <20030424233703.GB48527@nitro.dk> <ien0ie9z21.0ie@localhost.localdomain> <20030425202427.GC28920@sunbay.com> <t2ist29m45.st2@localhost.localdomain> <20030426103416.GA407@nitro.dk> <20030426113227.GC9189@sunbay.com> <20030428232915.67cccaa8.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> <20030429155704.GF390@nitro.dk>
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--vGgW1X5XWziG23Ko Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 05:57:04PM +0200, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: > On 2003.04.28 23:29:15 -0400, Tom Rhodes wrote: > > On Sat, 26 Apr 2003 14:32:27 +0300 > > Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> wrote: > >=20 > > > Not, it's not OK with others. Writing a simple script that finds > > > all port references and checks this with the fresh ports/ tree is > > > not that hard. I've been planning on setting the manpages tinder > > > box; adding this feature to it would be trivial. > > >=20 > >=20 > > So, are we going to work on this? I've got a PR which I'll gladly work > > on which shows .Xr refs to ports manual pages. I don't want to just > > remove the ref, yet I don't want it to stay there either. >=20 > Since nobody has objected to the idea of having ports references I don't > see why not. >=20 > The isue with categories or not can, as Ruslan noted, be handled by a > man page tinderbox so I don't think that is a real problem. >=20 > I understood on Ruslan that to add support for this it needs to be added > to the upstream GNU groff so I don't know how long time it would be > before port references could be used if it is decided that this is the > way to go. >=20 This usually takes 2-3 days; I have a well established contact with the Groff maintainer, and especially on mdoc(7) issues. FWIW, I'm co-maintaining the mdoc(7) in Groff. Cheers, --=20 Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age --vGgW1X5XWziG23Ko Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD4DBQE+rrfmUkv4P6juNwoRAgTeAJ4x8KROS7KRVmNxdnl3o+3qhDYx0gCY3QTz N3SuwEtF6NOVDGmaSw1yFg== =5Gdy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --vGgW1X5XWziG23Ko--
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