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 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 often
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 having
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 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.
The
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, without
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
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 be
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 having
* 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:
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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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
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 feature. Oh well.
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 as an
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 list
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 too:
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. Thanks!
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 have updated
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
, 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.
Could
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
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
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
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
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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