X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4D0731E5.5090903@gmx.de> Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 09:59:17 +0100 From: Matthias Andree User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; de; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: coreutils 8.5-2: lacks /usr/share/man/man1/[.1.gz References: <4D04B3EB DOT 5050800 AT gmx DOT de> <4D0647F1 DOT 8040903 AT redhat DOT com> <96545743 DOT 20101214044511 AT mtu-net DOT ru> <20101214015918 DOT GA18364 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> In-Reply-To: <20101214015918.GA18364@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Am 14.12.2010 02:59, schrieb Christopher Faylor: > 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. You could take this a bit more serious. Lack of documentation isn't something to joke about. -- Matthias Andree -- 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