Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2021 09:14:58 -0600 From: Kyle Evans <kevans91@ksu.edu> To: Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> Cc: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>, =?UTF-8?Q?Fernando_Apestegu=C3=ADa?= <fernape@freebsd.org>, Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, "<dev-commits-src-all@freebsd.org>" <dev-commits-src-all@freebsd.org>, dev-commits-src-main@freebsd.org Subject: Re: git: 0a0f7486413c - main - man: Build manpages for all architectures Message-ID: <CACNAnaHrps0-DL0BdM4C0KqoxasrdbBumS20P=L3HQ5yU=KHGA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <9226a616-d279-9702-f13f-cee7299afc7a@FreeBSD.org> References: <202106300806.15U86pGq037942@gitrepo.freebsd.org> <20210706090311.aomxh4n45tkpktdc@aniel.nours.eu> <c272868f-8552-d914-9d63-32a4af8e51ce@FreeBSD.org> <20211125142339.zxkjpbohkxk4hete@aniel.nours.eu> <9226a616-d279-9702-f13f-cee7299afc7a@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 8:30 AM Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> wrote: > > 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? :-) > It's handy in the sense that it'd be nice to install all arch manpages on some machines, e.g., I develop arm stuff on amd64 and there are some drivers that simply aren't applicable to amd64, I'd like to be able to find those. I think the implementation is a bit odd, though, leading into: > 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. > I guess I haven't read the context much here, but I don't see why either. /usr/bin/man's built-in search behavior checks $mandir/$machine and $mandir/$machine_arch before $mandir, it seems like we should be leaving them there and letting man do its thing. If you need a non-native arch then you can hopefully just poke around the arch subdirs (presumably mostly section 4 pages) to figure it out. There's a reason they're arch subdirs, and trying to install links or arch-specific pages into the main $mandir is asking for trouble when we actually have conflicting pages for whatever reason between archs. Thanks, Kyle Evans
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