glibc man pages

Jakub Bogusz qboosh at pld-linux.org
Sun Jul 13 22:02:22 CEST 2014


On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 09:28:47PM +0200, Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz wrote:
> On Saturday 12 of July 2014, Jakub Bogusz wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 06:42:46PM +0200, Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz wrote:
> > > Hi. There are outdated manual pages in glibc.spec:
> > > Source5:        http://qboosh.pl/man/%{name}-man-pages.tar.bz2
> > > 
> > > So the question is - do we really want them there? man-pages project have
> > > updated version, so why we don't use these pages from man-pages?
> > 
> > This tarball should be updated from latest man pages.
> > 
> > I worked on some automation scripts for updating per-package man pages
> > tarballs a few years ago, maybe it would be easy to use them for glibc
> > now...
> 
> I fail to understand why we want them in glibc.spec so badly. man-pages.spec 
> providing them is more sane to me.

To get ldconfig manuals together with ldconfig, similarly for ldd,
getconf etc. - just like in other packages.


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