> Subject: tar man page missing, man-pages package > > I saw an earlier thread for LFS 6.0 regarding the man page for "tar" > is missing. It is missing in 6.1 too. It was claimed that there was > no man page for tar, only an info page. > > That's strange, because Fedora and Red Hat have a man page for tar > and it is also listed on the superman pages > (http://linuxcommand.org/superman_pages.php) > > I also noticed that one or more of the bash built-in commands won't > come up using man (try "man source" for example). > > Which then makes me wonder, why are many of the man pages maintained > seperately (in the man-pages package)? Shouldn't man pages be part > of each source tarball? That seems like a major disconnect between > the maintainers of the software and maintainers of the documentation! > > - Joe
Lazy developers. ;) For the missing man pages, I just downloaded http://www.netmeister.org/misc/m2p2/m2p2.tar.gz and untarred it to /usr/share/man. :) It works great. That's from the "Missing Man Pages" project at http://www.netmeister.org/misc/m2p2/index.html :) Dave -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
