From: Thomas Klausner <wiz@NetBSD.org>
To: Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@usta.de>
Cc: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv
Subject: Re: override operating system version
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 00:15:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141225231542.GK7071@danbala.tuwien.ac.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141217172700.GA19376@iris.usta.de>
On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 06:27:00PM +0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> That only applies to mdoc(7) pages, and only if -Ios is not given
> on the command line and -DOSNAME is not given at compile time.
Thanks for the pointer. I looked at the man page on NetBSD-6 and -Ios
isn't supported there yet, so I hadn't seen it.
> For man(7) pages, it is left blank by default, and right now,
> that default cannot be overridden, neither at compile time nor
> from the command line.
That sounds good enough for now.
> The easiest way seems to let man(7) use the existing -Ios command
> line option just like mdoc(7). I mean, the user will hardly care
> what the language of the manual page's source code is, so it's
> hard to see why the two should be different.
I agree.
> Obviously, man.cgi(8) has no command line options, but it uses
> the manpath of the page being shown - for example "NetBSD-6.1.5" in
> http://mdocml.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=man&manpath=NetBSD-6.1.5 -
> for the purpose man(1) and mandoc(1) use -Ios.
That's a neat way to do that.
> If you like that approach, i'll probably commit it.
That's the man support for -Ios? Yes, please!
Thanks,
Thomas
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2014-12-17 13:35 Thomas Klausner
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