Tarek Ghaleb wrote:
Hello,
I've been looking at the way Man Pages are installed on my LFS system, and
comparing this to what FHS-2.3 recommends and came up with some
observations/questions:
* FHS-2.3 recommends that man pages be installed under
/usr/share/<mandir>/<locale>. Some packages actually do install their
man pages this way, but man-pages 2.01,(LFS-6.1) installs in
/usr/share/man--which, I guess, is the traditional place to have them.
FHS just makes no sense here. Yes, it says:
[quote]
Systems which use a unique language and code set for all manual pages
may omit the <locale> substring and store all manual pages in <mandir>.
[/quote]
And it mentions /usr/share/man/en which is not present on Debian Sarge
and not in Fedora Core 2. Additionally, neither unpatched "man" nor
"man-db" look there.
It also mentions the character-set field, but:
1) Groff does not support character sets other than ISO-8859-1 without hacks
2) As demonstrated by man-db and Debian Groff, conversion between
character sets on the fly is possible and it is in fact a good thing for
manual pages, in order to avoid having many (possibly unsynchronized)
/usr/share/man/de*/man1/cp.1 pages.
BTW the LSB Sample Implementation doesn't comply here either:
lsbsi-core-ia32/usr/share/man/
lsbsi-core-ia32/usr/share/man/man7/
lsbsi-core-ia32/usr/share/man/man7/iso-8859-9.7
<snip>
lsbsi-core-ia32/usr/share/man/it/
lsbsi-core-ia32/usr/share/man/it/man5/
lsbsi-core-ia32/usr/share/man/it/man5/shadow.5
lsbsi-core-ia32/usr/share/man/it/man5/passwd.5
Since even LSB ignores this section of FHS, I propose to ignore this FHS
section in LFS on the basis that no conforming sample implementation exists.
* Other than man[1-8], I'm seeing man0p, man1p, man3p, and man9! man1p
has user programs, like date, cat, du ... Is there a reason why they
are not in man1, for example?
Yes, the maintainers of such manual pages thought that they deserve the
additional section.
* I'm thinking or reorganizing the man directory and moving all man pages
under /usr/share/man/<locale>. Any thoughts or reflections?
See above. You also have to patch "man" so that it falls back to English
manual pages properly.
--
Alexander E. Patrakov
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