From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Oct 3 12:33:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89E7837B406 for ; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 12:33:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pittgoth.com (14.zlnp1.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.149.111]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 635DB43E77 for ; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 12:33:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from trhodes@FreeBSD.org) Received: from unknown ([192.168.0.5]) by pittgoth.com (8.12.6/8.12.5) with SMTP id g93JX5wi036260; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 15:33:06 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from trhodes@FreeBSD.org) Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 15:30:13 -0400 From: Tom Rhodes To: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/43502: Manual page ZNEW(1) has a bug Message-Id: <20021003153013.336e92a0.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: References: <200210030710.g937A4o9081365@freefall.freebsd.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.1claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.7) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I'll work on fixing this in the next few hours, however, znew is contrib software from gzip. While I would say to fix on the vender brance, gzip hasn't been touched in several years (shortest time is listed in cvs as 22 months for one file, all others are like 3 years and 8 years) so I don't think it makes much a difference to change this in our local repo. On 03 Oct 2002 10:56:51 -0700 swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) wrote: > Tom Rhodes writes: > > > I think what the manual page means here is that cpmod(1) is > > currently not availible in the FreeBSD Operating System... > > The manual clearly does not mean that it is not available. It even > seems to imply that it IS available. > > It also reads badly; as if it is the -P option which normally > maintains the time stamp. It also doesn't say what it means to > "maintain the time stamp" or what happens when it is not maintained. > > I don't consider it a bug that a Freebsd-standard program breaks if > other standard programs (eg, touch) are broken. I think it would be > best to replace the whole "Bugs" section with a note like this: > > If, for some reason, a non-standard touch(1) which not support the > standard "-r" option is used, the non-standard cpmod(1) command > (available from unknown sources) can be used to support znew(1). > This support is only needed for the "-P" option and if it does > not exist, the output file's time stamps will be unreliable. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message > -- Tom (Darklogik) Rhodes www.FreeBSD.org -The Power To Serve www.Pittgoth.com -Pittgoth Discussion Portal trhodes@{Pittgoth.com, FreeBSD.org} PGP key by www: http://www.pittgoth.com/~darklogik/darklogik.key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message