Bug#736720: Interrelation between this package and Linux manpages.
Hi Mats,
Mats Erik Andersson wrote:
> A standard installation of GNU/kFreeBSD, with a manual
> addition of "freebsd-manpages", will result in a mixture
> of Linux-only manpages, FreeBSD manpages, and glibc manpages.
> A typical example is this:
>
> $ man -a -w socket
> /usr/share/man/man2/socket.2.gz (Linux oriented)
> /usr/share/man/man2/socket.2freebsd.gz
> /usr/share/man/man9/socket.9freebsd.gz
> /usr/share/man/man7/socket.7.gz (Linux oriented)
> /usr/share/man/man3/socket.3pm.gz
>
> Observe that a Linux oriented page is preferred.
>
> One mechanism to resolve this inconvenience is to manually
> insert "2freebsd" and "4freebsd" into the manpage search
> order, like so:
>
> ### /etc/manpath.config
>
> SECTION 1 n l 8 3 2freebsd 2 3posix 3pm 3perl 5 4freebsd 4 9 6 7
>
> The only change to the official content is the insertion of
> the FreeBSD related sections.
>
> A loose idea would be to influence the package "man-db" to export
> such a line for "kfreebsd-any".
Or even better: make the man-db package export that line depending on
the architecture on which it is installed.
So I'm thinking about reassigning this to the package "man-db".
Regards, Axel
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