On 12/6/2011 4:05 PM, Arnaud Quette wrote: > Hi Fabio, > > 2011/12/6 Fabio M. Di Nitto <[email protected]>: >> On 12/6/2011 2:27 PM, Arnaud Quette wrote: >>> Hi Cluster-devel list, >>> >>> You will find attached a patch originating from Ubuntu (Andres >>> Rodriguez), that fixes a few issues in manpages (namely fence_drac and >>> fence_scsi). >> >> >> I wonder why the ubuntu/canonical maintainers can´t post patches >> directly for upstream inclusion. > > they obviously can Fabio. > But I proposed to do this on my side, since I still have some things > to do around fence_eaton... > That way, they can focus on other things. > > After all, it's just posting an email. The actual and important work > is to catch bugs and fix this ;-) > >>> Please consider applying it. >>> >>> As a side note, you may want to consider Asciidoc [1] to handle >>> generation of manpages, in groff and html format. >>> This already takes care of the groff formating, and would avoid the >>> above kind of issues. >>> That said, iirc you're also doing some POD style extraction, so it may >>> not be fully relevant. >> >> goal is to have all manpages generated at build time via fence_agent -o >> metadata output. Most of patches already exists for those few agents >> that don´t it. > > ok, that confirms the "POD" style approach. > I wasn't sure if you were standardizing on this, or going away from.
The patch will be "obsoleted" in the fence-agents release or max two. Fabio
