From nobody Wed May 26 15:24:23 2021 X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@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 1F6CABF6A4C for ; Wed, 26 May 2021 15:24:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wschnr@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-qt1-f172.google.com (mail-qt1-f172.google.com [209.85.160.172]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 (128/128 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256 client-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "GTS CA 1O1" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4FqvrM0FQZz3jNp; Wed, 26 May 2021 15:24:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wschnr@googlemail.com) Received: by mail-qt1-f172.google.com with SMTP id a15so1068414qta.0; Wed, 26 May 2021 08:24:34 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc:content-transfer-encoding; bh=N3lgi9ivg72d3VPvKjysmSHRKl9IMuwFENykuN90DYw=; b=pcz7oPjIAPiyQjHqkvoyHYdkoqsLp/lBAUg+4ukBr6+WDwqMGSZOLsndTEZQpAQE7p +rKWCP36gzTG0xI7TStJgleeo1BRuE2GpcTPH/U/zsT6wNXJE8JfvegLIFyocvSy1z84 PDAKx/QEr44JFI1aSlrCK89bIeG20G5yQu/fyIybOHKz6bwUcIGVOq24te6KouGHL7aH UQP542YJCbuR79eGnzi3oyp9OZbE8D1D1iu9SOJgujWMsFo/mrrCImk7FLe1u6BH1e8a MF472tOy+g72xP/cC2XPo5ZaTzNV0NpULixKKz3SmBSwcKC05lfHtdUyzkLLUC4TF14g Ivpw== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM530E7uqNr9IFVorUPnffqzawclMuCu6E2aNFbScDU6kbKxjuaOmR gXx1HaMXCSOqj3Wu8TbL66pd32Usax/aHeHkQOZWTNiI X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJxv6lTFsh4efjBHZA/8l9Q+hyuw2TBi65FPGS0u9Rb/hT7O2fIPDaI5QtqZi2nMt7x/w3osHmEAJw202yMSBlI= X-Received: by 2002:aed:2010:: with SMTP id 16mr37450248qta.256.1622042673865; Wed, 26 May 2021 08:24:33 -0700 (PDT) List-Id: Technical discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 References: In-Reply-To: From: Wolfram Schneider Date: Wed, 26 May 2021 17:24:23 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Inclusion of all manual pages in all architecture releases To: =?UTF-8?Q?Fernando_Apestegu=C3=ADa?= Cc: FreeBSD Hackers Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4FqvrM0FQZz3jNp X-Spamd-Bar: ---- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; none X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-4.00 / 15.00]; REPLY(-4.00)[] X-ThisMailContainsUnwantedMimeParts: N On Wed, 26 May 2021 at 17:09, Fernando Apestegu=C3=ADa wrote: > > I don't know what list this should be sent to, apologies if the > audience is too wide. > > For some time now, we have not included all manual pages in every > FreeBSD packaged release. For instance, i386 man pages are not > included in the FreeBSD amd64 distribution. > > This causes a number of problems: > > * The https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi is incomplete. As an > example, it does not show results for pae(4). The reason for this is > that the cgi interface runs on FreeBSD amd64. > > * In FreeBSD amd64 some manual pages have broken X-refs. See hptrr(4) > for an example. > > * Also, we have broken links in our Release Notes. This is a > consequence of the first point. See > https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.0R/hardware/#proc-i386. > > Is there a specific reason for this? I think this is a bug in our build system, starting at FreeBSD 10.x NetBSD ships all manual pages for all architectures in their package sets, and we should do the same. -Wolfram --=20 Wolfram Schneider https://wolfram.schneider.org