On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 9:42 PM, Justin Pryzby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > reassign 473458 libc6,manpages > thanks > > On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 08:15:43PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 6:35 PM, Justin Pryzby > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > user [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > usertag 473458 debian-specific > > > thanks > > > > > > On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 06:52:12PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > > > > Justin Pryzby wrote: > > > > > reassign 473458 libc6 > > > > > found 473458 2.7-9 > > > > > thanks > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 09:48:46PM +0300, ygrek wrote: > > > > > > But I think it's sufficiently accurate to say that the /lib heirarchy > > > > > is searched before that of /usr/lib, so ld.so.8 is wrong, thus > > > > > reassigning. > > > > > > > > This correct. NOTE: this bad text is in a Debian downstream patch. The > > > > usptream page is correct on this point (and has been forever, AFAICS) > > > The ld.so manpage seems to be introduced (not patched) by Debian's > > > diff. Where does the ld.so.8 page used by the rest of the world come > > > from? Does redhat or someone else maintain another page (separate > > > from both glibc upstream and Debian). > > > > It's in my set; ld.so.8 is one of the few section 8 pages in upstream > > man-pages. > Thanks for pointing that out. > > I don't know the history behind the libc6 package vs. manpages package > inclusion of ld.so.8. It seems to me that manpages is the way to go. > I note these differences: > > . /etc/ld.so.nohwcap; this might be debian-specific, eg. for > multi-arch. > . The entirely of sections BUGS, NOTES, AUTHORS, COLOPHON; > . the libc6 page suffers from bug#365112, fixed in manpages; > . man-pages has a more complete and correct description of the > search order (This is the initial bug report); > . man-pages has better hyphenation escaping; > . man-pages fixes typo LD_(DEBUG|PROFILE)_OUTPUT > . includes LD_*: SHOW_AUXV, HWCAP_MASK, ORIGIN_PATH, DYNAMIC_WEAK > . includes libc5-specific LD_*: KEEPDIR, ARGV0 > > Suggested fixes to the man-pages content to make it better than the > libc6 content in every way: > s/indirectly through/indirectly by/
Done. > s/resolval/resolution/ Done. > s/linked with/& the/ Done * 2. > s/set to non/set to a non/ (multiple times) Done * 4. > s/Do not update ... and/Update neither .../ I think that text is okay as is. > Instead of "various places", say "in the following order". Done. > Include content regarding: > > LD_ASSUME_KERNEL: (with fix: s/multiple version is/multiple > versions are/) > > $PLATFORM: (or uncomment this) (with fix: > s/specifcation/specification/) Can you send me the source of the Debian page? > I think glibc should drop ld.so.8. I'm inclined to agree, but will want to review the Debian page more closely first. Cheers, Michael > The manpages copy seems to be more > easily made to be the best of the two, and gets wider visibility so > can be reasonably expected to remain so. Any debian-specific linker > changes (perhaps including ld.so.conf.d?) can get included in the > debian diff to man-pages. That seems a preferable situation to > including an separately-maintained and undiffably-different manpage > in libc6, which includes only very few manpages (and only for normal > executables and the configuration file gai.conf). > > -- Michael Kerrisk Maintainer of the Linux man-pages project http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Want to report a man-pages bug? Look here: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
