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Re: manpages under i386 sub directory and what about amd64?




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Subject: Re: manpages under i386 sub directory and what about amd64?

From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed%reedmedia.net@localhost>

Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 09:06:32 -0500 (CDT)


On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, Jeremy C. Reed wrote to netbsd-help:

> mbrlabel manpage references mbr(8). But:
> 
> tx:src$ man mbr
> man: no entry for mbr in the manual.
> 
> It is at /usr/share/man/man8/i386/mbr.8
> 
> I don't see any setting in man.conf or in man manpage about this.
> 
> man.conf does say:
> 
>       If on a machine of type ``vax'', the subdirectory ``vax'' in each 
>       directory would be searched as well, before the directory was 
>       searched.
> 
> Well that explains that. I am on amd64 not i386. So my system has 
> platform specific manpages for 30 different platforms, but none for amd64.
> 
> Should the SEE ALSO in mbrlabel(8) mention i386 for the mbr(8)?
> 
> This works fine:
> 
> man i386/mbr
> 
> 
> 
>   Jeremy C. Reed


So I was told about open PR #36350 "Many man pages missing on amd64" 
http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=36350 which 
appears to have a fix (by having a common new category "x86"), but I 
haven't tested yet.

What is the status with this?

(I bcc'd the original list I posted this on so others can know where the 
conversation moved to. I cc'd port-i386 since this is for i386 man pages 
too.)


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manpages under i386 sub directory and what about amd64?
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