Thanks John, but I'd actually prefer to hear follow-up from Joerg on the root of the problems he's having. Joerg, please elaborate on your man page issues for us so we can continue this conversation and work toward solutions together.
-Michelle John Plocher wrote: > >> Joerg Schilling wrote: >> I have to edit the man pages I received in order to add new >> features.... >> >> Do you see a solution for this problem? > > The root of this problem is that you are making a downstream > derivative of the OpenSolaris work, and so are doomed to forever > maintaining your fork. > > (You are not alone in this area. Any distro producer - including > Sun - that is a consumer of other people's software is in the same > boat.) > > The solution is to get your new features integrated back into > the upstream source (OpenSolaris) so that the docs and code > are already in sync when you get them. > > Of course, this only works for features that are desired and > accepted by the upstream community; you will always be responsible > for any "Joerg-specific" features you decide to add to your distro. > > -John >
