X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 20:59:18 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: coreutils 8.5-2: lacks /usr/share/man/man1/[.1.gz Message-ID: <20101214015918.GA18364@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4D04B3EB.5050800@gmx.de> <4D0647F1.8040903@redhat.com> <96545743.20101214044511@mtu-net.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <96545743.20101214044511@mtu-net.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 04:45:11AM +0300, Andrey Repin wrote: >Greetings, Eric Blake! > >>> coreutils 8.5-2 does not install a man page for the "[" command in section 1. >>> This could/should be a symlink to test (test.1 contains the necessary >>> documentation), or a trivial roff file containing .so man1/test.1 (untested). > >> Upstream coreutils does not provide a [.1 man page, even though it does >> provide a test.1 man page. On Fedora, test.1 is from coreutils, while >> [.1 is an alias to the bash builtins man page. I could repeat that >> setup in cygwin, since I already create bash builtin alias pages for >> other bash builtins, like shopt.1. > >That, probably, would be most desirable choice. I beginning to think that we need a new mailing list to discuss issues relating to '[' . Clearly 2011 will be the Year of the Left Bracket. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple