[OE-core] [PATCH] sysklogd.inc: add syslogd.8 to ALTERNATIVE_${PN}-doc

richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org
Thu Sep 27 09:36:50 UTC 2018


On Thu, 2018-09-27 at 13:22 +0800, mingli.yu at windriver.com wrote:
> From: Mark Hatle <mark.hatle at windriver.com>
> 
> Other recipes, such as meta-networking inetutils
> may also provide a man page for syslogd.8.
> Use the alternatives mechanism to select the man
> page to display.
> 
> This is a partial revert of commit:
> 988aad01b20c18a8850db0ad6dc547525d94116c
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mark Hatle <mark.hatle at windriver.com>
> Signed-off-by: Mingli Yu <Mingli.Yu at windriver.com>
> ---
>  meta/recipes-extended/sysklogd/sysklogd.inc | 6 +++++-
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

I'm not sure I like the sound of this. Why would it provide a man page
but not the actual tool itself?

At the very least this needs a better explanation but I'm not sure it
sounds correct or is something we want to encourage.

Cheers,

Richard



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