Klemens Nanni wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 07:07:27PM +, Miod Vallat wrote:
> > > Well, something tells me the inclusion of the manual pages for fdisk
> > > and disklabel is deliberate. Makes some sense as these are complex
> > > utilities and their interactive use is documented in
Wow you have it so backwards.
So we will have embedded manuals for the case we don't need need the
embedded manual because you have manuals installed (type ^Z and run man)
but in the systems where you don't have manual pages, you won't have
the embedded manuals.
Very logical to forget why this
I think you have this wrong.
If someone is operating in the install media, and manually adjusting
their disk, and they don't know the commands they need, where are they
going to find the instructions?
In 1997, we added the embedded manual pages to fdisk (inside the
'manual' command) and
On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 07:32:16PM +, Miod Vallat wrote:
> > > The ability to be able to read the manual pages from the binaries
> > > themselves, when running is interactive mode, is an intentional feature
> > > and the reason they embed a gzipped version of the formatted manpage.
> >
> >
> > The ability to be able to read the manual pages from the binaries
> > themselves, when running is interactive mode, is an intentional feature
> > and the reason they embed a gzipped version of the formatted manpage.
>
> Even in the installer?
Especially in the installer, because you might
On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 07:07:27PM +, Miod Vallat wrote:
> > Well, something tells me the inclusion of the manual pages for fdisk
> > and disklabel is deliberate. Makes some sense as these are complex
> > utilities and their interactive use is documented in those pages.
>
> The ability to be
> Well, something tells me the inclusion of the manual pages for fdisk
> and disklabel is deliberate. Makes some sense as these are complex
> utilities and their interactive use is documented in those pages.
The ability to be able to read the manual pages from the binaries
themselves, when
> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2022 18:58:39 +
> From: Klemens Nanni
>
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 06:36:55PM +, Klemens Nanni wrote:
> > Turns out all install media ship full copies of those two manuals due to
> > what can be described like a makefile TOCTOU.
> >
> > In /usr/src/distrib/special,
On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 06:36:55PM +, Klemens Nanni wrote:
> Turns out all install media ship full copies of those two manuals due to
> what can be described like a makefile TOCTOU.
>
> In /usr/src/distrib/special, Makefile.inc sets NOMAN=1 but */Makefile
> only includes it in the very end
