On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 11:28:43AM + I heard the voice of
Alex Zbyslaw, and lo! it spake thus:
>
> In addition, considering an *option* to simply not have cat-ed
> manual pages (for people with machines fast enough to just not care,
> or who have machines where you just don't read man pages of
Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 01:43:41PM +0100 I heard the voice of
Bernd Walter, and lo! it spake thus:
Show me the positives that outweights the negatives and I'm on your
side.
Why do you think we're on different sides to begin with? I've not
advocated removing catman
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 01:43:41PM +0100 I heard the voice of
Bernd Walter, and lo! it spake thus:
>
> Show me the positives that outweights the negatives and I'm on your
> side.
Why do you think we're on different sides to begin with? I've not
advocated removing catman capability, or denied that
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 02:30:45PM -0500, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 08:08:31PM +0100 I heard the voice of
> Bernd Walter, and lo! it spake thus:
> >
> > I don't completly agree.
> > Many people forget that FreeBSD is used on slow embedded systems as
> > well and I prefer h
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 02:30:45PM -0500, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 08:08:31PM +0100 I heard the voice of
> Bernd Walter, and lo! it spake thus:
> >
> > I don't completly agree.
> > Many people forget that FreeBSD is used on slow embedded systems as
> > well and I prefer h
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 09:39:23AM -0500, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 10:23:58AM + I heard the voice of
> Alex Zbyslaw, and lo! it spake thus:
> >
> > Of course, with modern systems where nroff-ing a man page takes
> > negligible time and system resources, it could also
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 08:08:31PM +0100 I heard the voice of
Bernd Walter, and lo! it spake thus:
>
> I don't completly agree.
> Many people forget that FreeBSD is used on slow embedded systems as
> well and I prefer having manpoages there as well.
Oh, I don't argue that there are cases where ca
On 2007-10-30 18:26, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There are also a couple of manpages with references to very long URIs,
> which cannot be wrapped by nroff in a reasonable line-length:
>
> ng_netflow.4
> bluetooth.device.conf.5
>
> I don't think we can easily fix these,
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 10:23:58AM + I heard the voice of
Alex Zbyslaw, and lo! it spake thus:
>
> Of course, with modern systems where nroff-ing a man page takes
> negligible time and system resources, it could also be argued that
> cat-ed man pages should be a thing of the past :-)
Quite.
On 2007-10-30 14:16, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Neat. The base-system manpages which have errors or warnings are just a
> few of the hundreds we have. I just finished running a slightly
> modified version of `/etc/periodic/weekly/330.catman', which uses
> `catman -v' and the l
On 2007-10-30 13:32, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2007-May/040648.html
>
> Very interesting. Maybe we can tweak 330.catman to display the filename
> of the manpage which causes each error. Then we could use the periodic
> script
On 2007-10-29 12:18, Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 03:24:47PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> > On 2007-10-28 12:54, Andrew Lankford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Thbbt! I'm reading the catman version of MAKEDEV. Wish I could
> > > disable that "featur
Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
On 2007-10-28 12:54, Andrew Lankford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thbbt! I'm reading the catman version of MAKEDEV. Wish I could
disable that "feature". Oh well. I'll delete it all and rebuild it
again if needed. Thanks!
Ah, that's it then :)
My usual `in
On Sun, 28 Oct 2007, Andrew Lankford wrote:
Thbbt! I'm reading the catman version of MAKEDEV.
I'll try posting this one more time. :) Before you installworld, just do
'rm -r /usr/share/man/' and you won't ever have that problem.
Doug
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* Jeremy Chadwick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> There's a periodic script (/etc/periodic/weekly/330.catman) which
> rebuilds all the catman pages for you. However, it makes an immense
> mess of your weekly system mails due to all the manpage/nroff
> formatting mistakes. Have a look:
>
> http://l
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 03:24:47PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2007-10-28 12:54, Andrew Lankford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Thbbt! I'm reading the catman version of MAKEDEV. Wish I could
> > disable that "feature". Oh well. I'll delete it all and rebuild it
> > again if needed. T
On 2007-10-28 12:54, Andrew Lankford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thbbt! I'm reading the catman version of MAKEDEV. Wish I could
> disable that "feature". Oh well. I'll delete it all and rebuild it
> again if needed. Thanks!
Ah, that's it then :)
My usual `installworld' steps include this t
> On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 12:37:45PM -0400, Andrew Lankford wrote:
> > Thanks for replying, but once again I've miscommunicated the issue. I
> > meant that MAKEDEV.8 is in /usr/src/share/man/man8/, and the
> > modification time is Oct 13th, recent, which suggests to me that it's still
> > in the
Thbbt! I'm reading the catman version of MAKEDEV. Wish I could disable
that "feature". Oh well. I'll delete it all and rebuild it again if
needed. Thanks!
Andrew Lankford
Danny Braniss wrote:
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 12:37:45PM -0400, Andrew Lankford wrote:
Thanks for replying, but once
Danny Braniss wrote:
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 12:37:45PM -0400, Andrew Lankford wrote:
Thanks for replying, but once again I've miscommunicated the issue. I
meant that MAKEDEV.8 is in /usr/src/share/man/man8/, and the
modification time is Oct 13th, recent, which suggests to me that it's still
i
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 12:37:45PM -0400, Andrew Lankford wrote:
> Thanks for replying, but once again I've miscommunicated the issue. I
> meant that MAKEDEV.8 is in /usr/src/share/man/man8/, and the
> modification time is Oct 13th, recent, which suggests to me that it's still
> in the 7.0-BETA1
8 Oct 2007, Christian Brueffer wrote:
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 12:03:33AM -0400, Andrew Lankford wrote:
I just noticed that /usr/share/man/man8/MAKEDEV.8 is still in the
FreeBSD-7 tree. Is this intentional? It still says that MAKEDEV is
located in /dev and mentions MAKEDEV.local as well.
C
On Sun, 28 Oct 2007, Christian Brueffer wrote:
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 12:03:33AM -0400, Andrew Lankford wrote:
I just noticed that /usr/share/man/man8/MAKEDEV.8 is still in the
FreeBSD-7 tree. Is this intentional? It still says that MAKEDEV is
located in /dev and mentions MAKEDEV.local as
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 12:03:33AM -0400, Andrew Lankford wrote:
> I just noticed that /usr/share/man/man8/MAKEDEV.8 is still in the
> FreeBSD-7 tree. Is this intentional? It still says that MAKEDEV is
> located in /dev and mentions MAKEDEV.local as well.
>
Could it be that you
I just noticed that /usr/share/man/man8/MAKEDEV.8 is still in the
FreeBSD-7 tree. Is this intentional? It still says that MAKEDEV is
located in /dev and mentions MAKEDEV.local as well.
Just wondering.
Andrew Lankford
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