From owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org Mon Jan 25 07:11:11 2021 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E88F64EC21B; Mon, 25 Jan 2021 07:11:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from philip@freebsd.org) Received: from smtp.freebsd.org (smtp.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::24b:4]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256 client-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "smtp.freebsd.org", Issuer "R3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4DPLcv6Fwfz3CBp; Mon, 25 Jan 2021 07:11:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from philip@freebsd.org) Received: from weatherwax.trouble.is (weatherwax.trouble.is [IPv6:2a00:1098:82:3a::1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "weatherwax.trouble.is", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (verified OK)) (Authenticated sender: philip/mail) by smtp.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B90D32BF31; Mon, 25 Jan 2021 07:11:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from philip@freebsd.org) Received: from rincewind.trouble.is (rincewind.trouble.is [IPv6:2a01:4f9:2a:1715::1:1]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256 client-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "rincewind.trouble.is", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (verified OK)) by weatherwax.trouble.is (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4DPLct0D5nz1xcV; Mon, 25 Jan 2021 07:11:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by rincewind.trouble.is (Postfix, authenticated sender philip) id 4DPLcq6M6Bz6FlV; Mon, 25 Jan 2021 07:11:07 +0000 (UTC) From: "Philip Paeps" To: mj-mailinglist@gmx.de Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Files in /usr/share/misc Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2021 15:11:03 +0800 X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett X-Mailer: MailMate (1.14r5757) Message-ID: <62438B8D-08D3-40D4-829D-B8B23064B0F0@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2021 07:11:12 -0000 On 2021-01-24 21:35:40 (+0800), mj-mailinglist@gmx.de wrote: > - some FreeBSD project related files, like: > bsd-family-tree.dot, committers-*.dot, organization.dot > These would better be part of the documentation. > BTW, on 12.x they are out of date: > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=251701 I think we've never bothered merging those to older stable branches because there's not really any point. It might be worth doing so just before a release or something but there's very little benefit. > - development(?) related files, like: > pci_vendors, scsi_modes, usb_hid_usages, usbdevs, windrv_stub.c > I don't know if these files are used during build-/runtime E.g. pci_vendors is used by pciconf(8) and windrv_stub.c is used by ndiscvt(8). I'm sure the others are used by similar utilities that escape my memory. > - some files which are used during (build-?/)runtime: > magic, magic.mgc, termcap, termcap.db Shouldn't these be in a more > specific place? They are pretty static, so the "var" part in /var/db > does not fit, > but services.db is located there, too. The magic* files are used by file(1). See termcap(5) for the others. > - is the fonts folder in base, or did some port create it? I'm not > sure. Hah. I like the comment in hier(7) about this directory. :-) Philip -- Philip Paeps Senior Reality Engineer Alternative Enterprises