Just curious, are the older POSIX standards available as man pages too? Is there a way to install them side-by-side?
I'm by far most interested in the current up-to-date standard, but being able to easily cross-reference older revisions is sometimes handy. (E.g., when trying to make sure we're still compliant with older standards.) On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 8:18 AM, Vadim Zhukov <[email protected]> wrote: > 09.05.2014 17:17 пользователь "Ingo Schwarze" <[email protected]> написал: >> >> Hi Dmitrij and Vadim, >> >> Vadim Zhukov wrote on Fri, May 09, 2014 at 11:57:28AM +0400: >> > 09.05.2014 2:03 "Dmitrij D. Czarkoff" <[email protected]>: >> >> >> Why not shorten "man-pages-posix" to just "posix"? >> >> That's what i originally suggested, too: >> >> From: Ingo Schwarze <[email protected]> >> Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 00:45:56 +0100 >> To: Vadim Zhukov <[email protected]> >> Cc: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: POSIX standard as manual pages >> [...] >> Do not install these manuals to /usr/local/man/, >> but to a dedicated directory, something like >> /usr/local/share/doc/posix/man/man{1,3}/*.{1,3} >> >> One advantage is that if any other POSIX documentation should ever >> show up in ports, it could go into share/doc/posix, too. >> There is no danger of clashes, posix/man is quite clear, >> man-pages-posix/man somewhat redundant. >> >> > It's upstream name, FWIW. >> >> The argument that a port should follow upstream's name (unless it is >> very badly chosen) and that most subdirectories of /usr/local/share/doc/ >> follow the respective ports' names is a valid one. >> >> > I won't mind to change actual folder if there will be a real reason. >> > You won't go to this folder directly anyway, will you? >> >> I already have your port installed because it is useful for me >> when doing work regarding POSIX conformance and when doing work >> regarding HISTORY sections. I already cd'ed into that directory >> several times, mostly to do multiple consecutive grep -R commands. >> Given that all this is still man(7), not mdoc(7), the new apropos >> is not yet very helpful, so searching still needs to be done the >> old way. > > This is a good point, thank you for input. The packages are for people, not > the other direction. So if people use this directory, err, directly, then > it's better to have an exception. I'll rename the folder when I'll get my > laptop back to normal operation. > >> Then again, i don't feel strongly either way, both paths seem >> acceptable to me. It's your port, and you are more used to ports >> naming conventions, so you should decide this detail, i think. >> >> Yours, >> Ingo >>
