Bug 14677
| Summary: | listing of (48) utilities in /bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin without whatis(1) information | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Product: | Documentation | Reporter: | thepinkpages <thepinkpages> |
| Component: | Books & Articles | Assignee: | Tom Rhodes <trhodes> |
| Status: | Closed FIXED | ||
| Severity: | Affects Only Me | ||
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | Latest | ||
| Hardware: | Any | ||
| OS: | Any | ||
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Description
thepinkpages
1999-11-03 05:00:01 UTC
On Tue, Nov 02, 1999, thepinkpages@email.com wrote: > However, the PR fails to be reconginzed by the FreeBSD Project > This seems to stem for a personal vendeta of some type. The reason for this is in your own report: > >The gist of my message is that you are full of bullshit, and that your > >PR is just as useless as your rants on -chat and -advocay. > ---------- > /bin > ---------- > [: nothing appropriate A man page exists. > red: nothing appropriate Here, too. > ---------- > /sbin > ---------- > fastboot: nothing appropriate > fasthalt: nothing appropriate And these. > init: nothing appropriate And here. > rdump: nothing appropriate > rrestore: nothing appropriate And here. > ---------- > /usr/bin > ---------- > CC: nothing appropriate This can be fixed. > bdes: nothing appropriate Man page exists. > byacc: nothing appropriate Man page exists. > c++filt: nothing appropriate This seems to be a link to gdb. I'll look into it. So far you've actually found one really missing man page. > cc: nothing appropriate Your install is clearly broken. This has had a man page pretty much forever. > find2perl: nothing appropriate Two. > flex++: nothing appropriate Exists. > gdbreplay: nothing appropriate Here's one that actually doesn't have a man page. It appears to be part of binutils. > gensetdefs: nothing appropriate Man page seems to be in -CURRENT, it should be merged. > gprof4: nothing appropriate > gzcat: nothing appropriate These exist. > hoststat: nothing appropriate This appears to be a Sendmail thing. Please contact them and ask them to ship a man page for hoststat in their future releases. > lex: nothing appropriate > lex++: nothing appropriate These exist. > makeinfo: nothing appropriate makeinfo is a Texinfo thing, and it has a Texinfo manual page. From here on, I will only quote the ones that are actually not there. > miniperl: nothing appropriate miniperl is a perl thing. The perl folks are responsible here. > mk_cmds: nothing appropriate Here's another man page that's missing. If you're volunteering, you can write some of these man pages. > perl5.00503: nothing appropriate "man perl" should be fine for people who are not shell scripts. > pod2latex: nothing appropriate > pod2text: nothing appropriate Perl people. > ptx: nothing appropriate Has info pages. Wish they'd write man pages. > splain: nothing appropriate > suidperl: nothing appropriate Perl. > systags: nothing appropriate Contact the global people -- this is contributed software. > ---------- > /usr/sbin > ---------- > callbootd: nothing appropriate Another real case. I'll look into it. > memcontrol: nothing appropriate Exists in -CURRENT. I'll talk to Mike (the maintainer) and merge it into -STABLE. (I wrote the man page recently.) > named-bootconf: nothing appropriate > nsupdate: nothing appropriate BIND people, contributed software. > pmap_dump: nothing appropriate > pmap_set: nothing appropriate I'd have to look into these. -- |Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com> |To err is human; to forgive, beyond the scope of the Operating System. `---------------------------------------------------------------------- Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-doc->chris I'll take care of these. Perhaps my report was not correct in it's content.
My subject line was correct. "..(48).. without whatis(1) information"
How would suggest I write this, so that it may be understood.
This may be a failing in my PR.
As for the PR, I'll followup on people (ie. bind/perl/sendmail people, et. al)
that should send in the appropriate fixes. I'd be happy to do this. :-)
For other things (ie. write manpages), my time is just too limited, sorry.
Lastly, Thanks for a civil response. My intent has always been
to be helpful, it's not always interpeted that way. :-)
Regards.
Jessem.
At 11:35 PM 11/2/99 -0600, Chris Costello wrote:
>On Tue, Nov 02, 1999, thepinkpages@email.com wrote:
>> However, the PR fails to be reconginzed by the FreeBSD Project
>> This seems to stem for a personal vendeta of some type.
>
> The reason for this is in your own report:
>
>> >The gist of my message is that you are full of bullshit, and that your
>> >PR is just as useless as your rants on -chat and -advocay.
>
>> ----------
>> /bin
>> ----------
>> [: nothing appropriate
>
> A man page exists.
>
>> red: nothing appropriate
>
> Here, too.
>
>> ----------
>> /sbin
>> ----------
>> fastboot: nothing appropriate
>> fasthalt: nothing appropriate
>
> And these.
>
>> init: nothing appropriate
>
> And here.
>
>> rdump: nothing appropriate
>> rrestore: nothing appropriate
>
> And here.
>
>> ----------
>> /usr/bin
>> ----------
>> CC: nothing appropriate
>
> This can be fixed.
>
>> bdes: nothing appropriate
>
> Man page exists.
>
>> byacc: nothing appropriate
>
> Man page exists.
>
>> c++filt: nothing appropriate
>
> This seems to be a link to gdb. I'll look into it. So far
>you've actually found one really missing man page.
>
>> cc: nothing appropriate
>
> Your install is clearly broken. This has had a man page
>pretty much forever.
>
>> find2perl: nothing appropriate
>
> Two.
>
>> flex++: nothing appropriate
>
> Exists.
>
>> gdbreplay: nothing appropriate
>
> Here's one that actually doesn't have a man page. It appears
>to be part of binutils.
>
>> gensetdefs: nothing appropriate
>
> Man page seems to be in -CURRENT, it should be merged.
>
>> gprof4: nothing appropriate
>> gzcat: nothing appropriate
>
> These exist.
>
>> hoststat: nothing appropriate
>
> This appears to be a Sendmail thing. Please contact them and
>ask them to ship a man page for hoststat in their future
>releases.
>
>> lex: nothing appropriate
>> lex++: nothing appropriate
>
> These exist.
>
>> makeinfo: nothing appropriate
>
> makeinfo is a Texinfo thing, and it has a Texinfo manual page.
>
> From here on, I will only quote the ones that are actually not
>there.
>
>> miniperl: nothing appropriate
>
> miniperl is a perl thing. The perl folks are responsible
>here.
>
>> mk_cmds: nothing appropriate
>
> Here's another man page that's missing. If you're
>volunteering, you can write some of these man pages.
>
>> perl5.00503: nothing appropriate
>
> "man perl" should be fine for people who are not shell
>scripts.
>
>> pod2latex: nothing appropriate
>> pod2text: nothing appropriate
>
> Perl people.
>
>> ptx: nothing appropriate
>
> Has info pages. Wish they'd write man pages.
>
>> splain: nothing appropriate
>> suidperl: nothing appropriate
>
> Perl.
>
>> systags: nothing appropriate
>
> Contact the global people -- this is contributed software.
>
>> ----------
>> /usr/sbin
>> ----------
>> callbootd: nothing appropriate
>
> Another real case. I'll look into it.
>
>> memcontrol: nothing appropriate
>
> Exists in -CURRENT. I'll talk to Mike (the maintainer) and
>merge it into -STABLE. (I wrote the man page recently.)
>
>> named-bootconf: nothing appropriate
>> nsupdate: nothing appropriate
>
> BIND people, contributed software.
>
>> pmap_dump: nothing appropriate
>> pmap_set: nothing appropriate
>
> I'd have to look into these.
>
>--
>|Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>
>|To err is human; to forgive, beyond the scope of the Operating System.
>`----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
On Tue, Nov 02, 1999, Jesse Monroy, Jr. wrote: > Perhaps my report was not correct in it's content. > My subject line was correct. "..(48).. without whatis(1) information" > > How would suggest I write this, so that it may be understood. > This may be a failing in my PR. "whatis" will also find things by the existance of their man page: $ whatis memcontrol memcontrol(8) - Control system cache behaviour with respect to memory > As for the PR, I'll followup on people (ie. bind/perl/sendmail people, et. al) > that should send in the appropriate fixes. I'd be happy to do this. :-) Thanks! > For other things (ie. write manpages), my time is just too limited, sorry. I couldn't pass up an opportunity. FreeBSD is maintained by volunteers. > Lastly, Thanks for a civil response. My intent has always been > to be helpful, it's not always interpeted that way. :-) The few that actually didn't have man pages should have man pages. Thanks for (though somehow indirectly) indirectly pointing that out. -- |Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com> |"That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all." `-------------------------------------------------------- mk_cmds.1 has been added. Another one shot down. -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven Network- and systemadministrator <asmodai@bart.nl> bART Internet Services / Tel: +31 - (0) 10 - 240 39 70 VIA NET.WORKS Netherlands State Changed From-To: open->closed Switch this PR to me. The list printed now shows that most utilities lacking the manual pages either have MLINKS or are from contributed software. Responsible Changed From-To: chris->trhodes Switch this PR to me. The list printed now shows that most utilities lacking the manual pages either have MLINKS or are from contributed software. |
