Hi, On 06/05/2014 08:27 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 2:16 PM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On 06/05/2014 05:38 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: >>> On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Josh Stone <jistone@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> On 06/05/2014 07:02 AM, Josh Boyer wrote: >>>>> On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 06:05:50PM +0430, navid Rahimi wrote: >>>>>> is there any man page for kernel in fedora ?? in debian >>>>> >>>>> No. The kernel-doc package contained the html equivalent of the man >>>>> pages, but I don't believe we ever shipped the man9 pages themselves. >>>> >>>> Actually F19 still has man9, and you're the one who dropped it in F20: >>>> >>>> commit d3cca19fc2a55e3588284626e24e7f7e8c1effd1 >>>> Author: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxx> >>>> Date: Tue Aug 6 16:52:31 2013 -0400 >>>> >>>> Don't package API man pages in -doc (rhbz 993905) >>>> >>>> >>>> ref: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=993905 >>> >>> Oh, indeed you are correct. Apparently I forgot that. >>> >>> In any case, Fedora doesn't plan on shipping the kernel docs any longer. >> >> May I ask why not? As a kernel developer I found them very useful. I'll gladly >> admit that they should probably be in a separate sub-package, not -doc itself, >> although if you're dropping that altogether then it does not matter. >> >> Not having them at all is quite inconvenient, and I quite often find myself >> missing them ... Maybe drop the html docs, and re-introduce the man pages? > > 1) The Base OS group is pushing to reduce build requires for the Base > packages as much as possible. Just building the documentation that, > to be quite honest, very few people ever read required crazy things to > be dragged into the buildroot. > > 2) The way they were handled in the kernel.spec is terrible and > required a special koji hack that nothing else needs. > > If someone wants to add a completely separate kernel-doc or > kernel-manpage package then I'm all for it. I'll even be happy to > review it. However, I'm not adding it back as a subpackage to > kernel.spec. Ok fair enough. I'm afraid I don't have the time to create a kernel-manpages packages, but since I'm interested in seeing one, I too am willing to review it :) Regards, Hans _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kernel
