Date: Wed, 26 May 2021 09:22:57 -0600 From: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> To: Fernando =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Apestegu=EDa?= <fernape@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Inclusion of all manual pages in all architecture releases Message-ID: <e04c556294e471c0fa9db8bd105f1333e2340f29.camel@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <CAGwOe2YTOCgak-CpEy4aa=vHseOMu6wjVF8JTV_0z=5WGkYFYg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAGwOe2YTOCgak-CpEy4aa=vHseOMu6wjVF8JTV_0z=5WGkYFYg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 2021-05-26 at 17:04 +0200, Fernando Apesteguía 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? > > Cheers. > I have tried multiple times to get the people who adminster freebsd.org's man.cgi to include all arches. I added the ability to generate and install all of them by setting MAN_ARCH=all (or to a list of arches) on the build command line years ago. But I haven't had any success in getting that used to install all the arches for the website and man.cgi updated to make the arch selection list on the webpage actually work. -- Ian
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