Re: bin/1904

[Abhinav Upadhyay <er.abhinav.upadhyay%gmail.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/1904; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Abhinav Upadhyay <er.abhinav.upadhyay%gmail.com@localhost>
To: NetBSD GNATS <gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
Cc: gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, kashmir%umiacs.umd.edu@localhost
Subject: Re: bin/1904
Date: Sat, 28 May 2016 22:54:24 +0530

 On Sat, May 28, 2016 at 10:10 PM, David Holland
 <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR bin/1904; it has been noted by GNATS.
 >
 > From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
 > To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
 > Cc:
 > Subject: Re: bin/1904
 > Date: Sat, 28 May 2016 16:36:05 +0000
 >
 >  On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 09:50:00AM +0000, Abhinav Upadhyay wrote:
 >   >  Is this still relevant?
 >   >  The first two issues regarding apropos and whatis are not valid anymore
 >   >  as we don't use whatis.db for them.
 >   >
 >   >  Not quite sure about the 3rd and 4th points.
 >
 >  The last point (the one about bsd.man.mk using catman) is wrong; or at
 >  least, not useful. The build rules in the default man.conf are supposed
 >  to be consistent with the build rules in the makefiles; using custom
 >  rules from an installed man.conf is not consistent with the principle
 >  of the build being self-contained, cross builds working reliably, etc.
 >  Also it's only relevant if one is generating cat pages at build time,
 >  which has not been the default for some years now.
 
 I guess that settles the 4th point as not being useful (in present time).
 
 >  The other point "catman doesn't work with /etc/man.conf and linked
 >  manpages" ... not even sure what that means. However, I guess we might
 >  want some of the patches to catman(8) in here...
 
 As per the description of the 3rd patch, it means that catman doesn't
 parse and use the rules from /etc/man.conf and, it also doesn't handle
 the symlinked or hard linked man pages, the patch fixes those issues.
 
 I think those are useful fixes if we are going to maintain catman.
 -
 Abhinav