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toolchain/55996: postinstall fix manconf could be more helpful
>Number: 55996
>Category: toolchain
>Synopsis: postinstall fix manconf could be more helpful
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: toolchain-manager
>State: open
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Wed Feb 17 14:05:00 +0000 2021
>Originator: Mouse
>Release: NetBSD 9.1
>Organization:
Dis-
>Environment:
System: NetBSD example.example.com 9.1 NetBSD 9.1 (GENERIC) #0: Sun Oct 18 19:24:30 UTC 2020 mkrepro%mkrepro.NetBSD.org@localhost:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC amd64
Architecture: x86_64
Machine: amd64
>Description:
I'm not sure toolchain is the right category. It looked
likeliest for something bearing on the tools used to build and
install the world; of course, please reassign if I guessed
wrong in this regard.
This machine was upgrade-installed from 5.2 to 9.1. I then did
a build-of-the-world, because its end use involves a few tweaks
to the system. But, when fixing postinstall whines, I found
manconf to be..unhelpful. It just says you might want to copy
a new version in, without any indication where a new version
might be found. (Fortunately, there is only one man.conf under
/usr/src, but it still would be nice to be pointed at it.)
>How-To-Repeat:
Upgrade a 5.2 machine to 9.1, do a build of the world, try to
fix the things postinstall complains about, and notice it's
difficult to fix manconf.
>Fix:
Um...change the message printed by postinstall? Possibly
something like
msg "The file /etc/man.conf has not been adapted to mandoc usage; you"
- msg "probably want to copy a new version over. ${notfixed}"
+ msg "probably want to copy a new version over,"
+ msg "such as /usr/src/etc/man.conf.${notfixed:+ }${notfixed}"
fi
(That (a) is hand-constructed and hence (b) probably contains
errors as is, (c) probably should have /usr/src replaced with
wherever the -s argument is stashed, and (d) admittedly
contains an attempt at the aesthetics fix of eliminating the
whitespace before $notfixed if $notfixed is empty, which
arguably should be a separate change but doesn't seem worth its
own PR. But it should give the idea.)
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