From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Jul 11 0:20:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B57737BDC9 for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 00:20:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) id AAA82411; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 00:20:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 00:20:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200007110720.AAA82411@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Cc: From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Subject: Re: docs/19818: /usr/share/man/man8/sysinstall.8 missing Reply-To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR docs/19818; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" To: Nik Clayton Cc: B.Candler@pobox.com, jkh@freebsd.org, freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/19818: /usr/share/man/man8/sysinstall.8 missing Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 00:19:22 -0700 > > sysinstall.8 man page is not in distribution; need to dig install > > sources to find it under /usr/src/release/sysinstall/ > > This is right. Is there any reason we don't do this? Otherwise, the > attached patch should do it. Well, we don't do it because sysinstall isn't in the default build path, is never touched by "make world" or "make distribute", and hence never makes it into the man pages distribution with all the other manual pages, even with Nik's patch to the Makefile. I've thought of various types of evil hacks to work around this over the years, but they always seemed more evil than simply omitting the man page. :-) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message