Hello Thorsten,
On 12/16/2016 03:36 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Dec 2016, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
>
>> On 12/16/2016 02:53 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
>>> On Fri, 16 Dec 2016, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
>>>
That doesn't document (upstream) reality though. Once u
On Fri, 16 Dec 2016, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> On 12/16/2016 02:53 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> > On Fri, 16 Dec 2016, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> >
> >> That doesn't document (upstream) reality though. Once upon a time,
> >> there were one or two Section 9 pages in the man-pa
On 12/16/2016 02:53 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Dec 2016, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
>
>> That doesn't document (upstream) reality though. Once upon a time,
>> there were one or two Section 9 pages in the man-pages
>> project. No one updated them or added new one in > 15 years,
On Fri, 16 Dec 2016, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> That doesn't document (upstream) reality though. Once upon a time,
> there were one or two Section 9 pages in the man-pages
> project. No one updated them or added new one in > 15 years,
> and I deleted them years ago, as being out-of-date
On 12/16/2016 02:37 PM, Axel Beckert wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thorsten Glaser wrote:
>> On Tue, 13 Dec 2016, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
>>> Upstream man-pages maintainer here; I just added tmpfs(5), unaware
>>> that it would create a conflict for Debian; I assume the conflicting
>>> page is Debian
On 12/16/2016 02:40 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Dec 2016, Axel Beckert wrote:
>
> The manpage about the Linux tmpfs should be tmpfs(9) as it
> covers a kernel concept (here: a filesystem).
Not sure where this idea originates. There is no Section 9 on Linux.
>>>
>>> Ah
On Fri, 16 Dec 2016, Axel Beckert wrote:
> > > > The manpage about the Linux tmpfs should be tmpfs(9) as it
> > > > covers a kernel concept (here: a filesystem).
> > >
> > > Not sure where this idea originates. There is no Section 9 on Linux.
> >
> > Ah, hmm, too bad then. We have them on BSD.
>
Hi,
Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Dec 2016, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> > Upstream man-pages maintainer here; I just added tmpfs(5), unaware
> > that it would create a conflict for Debian; I assume the conflicting
> > page is Debian-specific(?). (I don't have such a page on my Fedor
On 13 December 2016 at 10:56, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Dec 2016, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
>
>> I can't move "them" as they come from diverse projects (nfs-utils,
>
> OK.
>
>> e2fsprogs, btrfs-progs). Obviously, various projects came to the same
>> conclusion (or copied each ot
>>> And there's certainly precedent for section 5 pages on filesystems.
>>> For example, among others, we have ext4(5), btrfs(5), and nfs(5).
>>
>> But section 5 is for configuration files. You could move them
>> to section 7 (general concepts), though.
>
> I can't move "them" as they come from div
On Tue, 13 Dec 2016, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> I can't move "them" as they come from diverse projects (nfs-utils,
OK.
> e2fsprogs, btrfs-progs). Obviously, various projects came to the same
> conclusion (or copied each other's idea) that Section 5 was the right
> place. And in the Lin
Hello Thorsten,
On 13 December 2016 at 10:43, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Dec 2016, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
>
>> Upstream man-pages maintainer here; I just added tmpfs(5), unaware
>> that it would create a conflict for Debian; I assume the conflicting
>> page is Debian-specific
Am 13. Dezember 2016 04:49:46 MEZ, schrieb Michael Biebl :
>On Tue, 13 Dec 2016 00:44:24 +0100 Sebastian Ramacher
> wrote:
>> Package: manpages
>> Version: 4.09-1
>> Severity: serious
>>
>> manpages fails to install because it shares tmpfs(5) with
>initscripts:
>>
>> dpkg: error processing archiv
On Tue, 13 Dec 2016, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> Upstream man-pages maintainer here; I just added tmpfs(5), unaware
> that it would create a conflict for Debian; I assume the conflicting
> page is Debian-specific(?). (I don't have such a page on my Fedora
Yes.
> > The manpage about the
Upstream man-pages maintainer here; I just added tmpfs(5), unaware
that it would create a conflict for Debian; I assume the conflicting
page is Debian-specific(?). (I don't have such a page on my Fedora
system.)
On 13 December 2016 at 10:00, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Dec 2016, Michael B
On Tue, 13 Dec 2016, Michael Biebl wrote:
> The tmpfs man page shipped by the manpages package talks about the tmpfs
> file system.
> The man page shipped by initscripts talks about the debian/initscripts
> specific config file /etc/default/tmpfs.
>
> My gut feeling is, that debian specific tmpfs
On Tue, 13 Dec 2016 00:44:24 +0100 Sebastian Ramacher
wrote:
> Package: manpages
> Version: 4.09-1
> Severity: serious
>
> manpages fails to install because it shares tmpfs(5) with initscripts:
>
> dpkg: error processing archive
> /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-7sSPgR/26-manpages_4.09-1_all.deb (--unpac
Package: manpages
Version: 4.09-1
Severity: serious
manpages fails to install because it shares tmpfs(5) with initscripts:
dpkg: error processing archive
/tmp/apt-dpkg-install-7sSPgR/26-manpages_4.09-1_all.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man5/tmpfs.5.gz', which is also in pa
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