On Mar 31 23:26, Brian Inglis via Cygwin wrote: > On 2025-03-31 12:49, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote: > > On Mar 31 12:35, Brian Inglis via Cygwin wrote: > [...] > > > Has anyone a feel if there are any other projects on that list whose man > > > pages would be useful under Cygwin even if the package itself is not > > > available, or even individual man pages where they are not currently > > > available? > > > We have quite a few functions which might be only available on BSD systems, > > and we have these Solaris ACL functions which don't exist on Linux. We > > probably can't use the man pages from Solaris due to copyright constraints, > > but the FreeBSD man pages should be ok. > > The Solaris man pages were made available under the CDDL or PDL derived from > MPL: we have Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris 2010 available on the freebsd.org > site, > a well as most other OSes anyone might want: 520 of them, from 7th Edition, > 2.10BSD, 386BSD, thru 4.4Lite2, .
Oh, great. > Space required for FreeBSD man pages is comparable to man-pages-linux - > should we make all FreeBSD 15.0 current man pages available similar to > man-pages-linux - man-pages-freebsd package and directory under > /usr/share/man/ symlinked as freebsd for convenience with man -m|--systems > SYSTEM,...? > > Or should we stick to the original idea and package only selected missing > man pages in the other sections of posix.xml as man-pages-extra? Your call. As long as we don't have dedicated people creating matching man pages for Cygwin (very unlikely for such a small project), we'll never have 100% accurate man pages either way. So it might be a bit too much hassle to tweak the FreeBSD man pages into a form matching Cygwin. The only question is, assuming as a user I have have man-pages-linux and man-pages-freebsd installed. How do I decide on the command line which of them I see? Thanks, Corinna -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
