Milan Jurik <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > sgml2roff is a *helper* utility (and it was an unmaintained mess), and as
> > > illumos doesn't ship any SGML manpages, the need for it being in the gate
> > > has vanished. As it's not closed-source, proprietary or documented core
> > > OS functionality, I don't see a problem with "fixing" consumers to not
> > > rely on it being shipped within illumos-gate (just convert JDS manpages
> > > to nroff?).
> >
> >
> > I updated the bug. From what I can tell, JDS delivers man pages in nroff
> > format. In this case, sgml2roff becomes a build time dependency for JDS
> > rather than a run-time dependency. Assuming this to be the case, the best
> > solution is to import it into the JDS CBE. (Or, to stop maintaining those
> > pages in SGML and just convert them once to nroff and be done with it --
> > but I'm not sure if that is complicated by interactions with the upstream.)
> >
>
> yes, it is part of JDS CBE, not run-time dependecy (from what I know
> now). I am trying to use plain "upstream" JDS gate then I have serious
> problem here, I need to deliver it to CBE, which I can clone easily.
> From my point the simplest way is to bring it back to Illumos gate than
> to fight with different build structures. Which means I have to push it
> to OI ON gate for now. As the result the next OI can diverge from clean
> Illumos.
Well, the problem seems to be that:
1) we cannot maintain SGML man pages
2) on the other side, the troff->sgml->troff conversion done by Sun did
introduce massive bugs into the man pages.
So the question is whether the sgml versions are already broken or whether the
sgml->troff conversion is the conversion that introduced the problems......
In the latter case, there is a need to first fix sgml2roff before throwing it
away.
Jörg
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