Hi Luke,

Luke A. Call wrote on Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 12:54:10PM -0600:
> On 03-18 19:22, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
>> Theo de Raadt wrote:

>>> Ingo -- I think using man.openbsd.org as a "testbed for all possible
>>> man page hierarchies" incorrect.

>> It was never a testbed, but a production service with several parts
>> provided nowhere else (well, at least until FreeBSD followed our
>> lead and started providing something very similar).
>> 
>> For example, for DragonFly, Illumos, and NetBSD, semantic searching
>> is neither supported by their native apropos(1) on the command line
>> nor by their own websites.
>> 
>> But since you have a point that such services hardly belong
>> on *.openbsd.org, they are now on *.bsd.lv, where misunderstandings
>> like the one witnessed above are unlikely to happen.

> Providing a simple link from the man.openbsd.org page to the services
> on *.bsd.lv might help those who are used to looking in the old
> location, while avoiding possible "which bsd" confusion (maybe called 
> "Some other systems' manuals", or such).  Especially for those not
> reading this thread.  Just a thought.

Makes sense, done.

Note that in addition to man.openbsd.org, man.bsd.lv is now also
up and running, but the latter will only contain release manual
pages for a number of systems (including OpenBSD) but not
OpenBSD-current.

Yours,
  Ingo

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