X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 10:59:59 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: coreutils 8.5-2: lacks /usr/share/man/man1/[.1.gz Message-ID: <20101214155959.GC1416@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com 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> <4D0731E5 DOT 5090903 AT gmx DOT de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4D0731E5.5090903@gmx.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 09:59:17AM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote: >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. Cwealy you don't know me vewy well. [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