From nobody Thu Nov 25 14:30:35 2021 X-Original-To: dev-commits-src-all@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61A3918B89F2; Thu, 25 Nov 2021 14:30:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from avg@FreeBSD.org) Received: from smtp.freebsd.org (smtp.freebsd.org [96.47.72.83]) (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 4J0Kzg0lCRz3Nwq; Thu, 25 Nov 2021 14:30:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from avg@FreeBSD.org) Received: from [192.168.0.88] (unknown [195.64.148.76]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) (Authenticated sender: avg/mail) by smtp.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1F35EAED2; Thu, 25 Nov 2021 14:30:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from avg@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <9226a616-d279-9702-f13f-cee7299afc7a@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2021 16:30:35 +0200 List-Id: Commit messages for all branches of the src repository List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/dev-commits-src-all List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-dev-commits-src-all@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: dev-commits-src-all@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0 Thunderbird/91.3.0 From: Andriy Gapon Subject: Re: git: 0a0f7486413c - main - man: Build manpages for all architectures Content-Language: en-US To: Baptiste Daroussin Cc: =?UTF-8?Q?Fernando_Apestegu=c3=ada?= , Ed Maste , src-committers@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-src-all@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-src-main@FreeBSD.org References: <202106300806.15U86pGq037942@gitrepo.freebsd.org> <20210706090311.aomxh4n45tkpktdc@aniel.nours.eu> <20211125142339.zxkjpbohkxk4hete@aniel.nours.eu> In-Reply-To: <20211125142339.zxkjpbohkxk4hete@aniel.nours.eu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=freebsd.org; s=dkim; t=1637850639; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=MxasM2M/MwRD3I5xtpAcdvFikueIiswaqeodwGmsWTs=; b=hK+UUDOjlNrCGSH3OUOKZ77BfoSi2A0xPAEd2l3ElSVGLa9s68YEcQjUV7xNOCWBd5EKYJ +ewIg9Ehh4zZlqHEG0fknEizBb961mrkrYxO/uBkV3axQUH+283PNKnI2qnz6q4fhdQh/u bUF29zPLXh6N/mrZl1SSN4IAXKidZJevr9g+CLKGpWbA4lzlGBud4jvPEgj6o3iXlv7Zu6 3e2FZhn+sArjs4BaJLu/MeOUk5syXHaM8mtiVOcXmg23aIFkYtn5+jzrV9JanqnQ3LAP6f rLlEnNaA31pl8KXoHr1se0r+RDQYLchQfis5IRHMwfyLt1IT8CvZ4r60/iWOdQ== ARC-Seal: i=1; s=dkim; d=freebsd.org; t=1637850639; a=rsa-sha256; cv=none; b=UTgh3iE8UsKKJZag+kd/y68KVtSe76rLRxNvbvstAWf7KWIlRitgoMonRi/ihlBi3K00tV H9WGqEZjo6G1/VXVKSVQXaQC+ZjwoC6s/bfYAvJmYpNa6wCJ8IGye1VNPkwF++OtKk464W 5okMZ0Lz1GHljKBkwIN3w6EYM2Vq/HAXcUZ4INdiECLXDRNzV5ephMnlLixTKSNOcHxpPa GWIjky/W0/Riy83FLsd4ZA14IXFbxTn5YVZGfLk8qkfccdwIcAUW/Gnhl+jn18FKqx2g74 eXn76DFCIIPP6RvD0Ze57JKitRMEz27wXH1bZHUMUuL8Kz28h5rfAyDB0yGPLQ== ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; mx1.freebsd.org; none X-ThisMailContainsUnwantedMimeParts: N On 25/11/2021 16:23, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 03:57:41PM +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote: >> Looking at the output I got another thought: do we need architecture sub-dir >> links at all now that we install manpages to a main directory? >> Is there any benefit to having the same manpage in a directory (like man4) >> and its immediate subdirectory (like man4/arm) ? >> > Hardlink not in the same directory is imho a fragile setup anyway, what if a > user has different mount points here, the hardlink would be broken. while there > is little chances someone is doing that, history told me people are doing weird > things and if they haven't yet, they will soon. > > I continue to think this kind of links should be 1/ symlinks, 2/ relative > symlinks if they are in a situation which can become a cross device issue. Yeah... but are they needed at all? :-) I mean, whichever way we install manpages they are always installed into manX. I do not see a point / benefit of having another copy / link / whatever in manX/arch. P.S. Adding support for "MSYMLINKS" is not that hard. But I'd rather remove some stuff than add some new stuff. -- Andriy Gapon