[Nut-upsuser] UPS configuration issue?

[Jim Klimov]

> Yowza. Solaris is still around?

Sure thing, quite a few distros based on illumos-core (OpenSolaris
descendants), general-purpose or tailored to a purpose, alive and kicking.

Jim

On Tue, May 13, 2025, 03:21 Sam Varshavchik <mrsam at courier-mta.com> wrote:

> Jim Klimov writes:
>
> >   NUT "dist" tarballs, including release snapshots, do include a copy
> of
> > generated man pages (probably in a *roff format) for the benefit of
> end-users
>
> Yes, I do the same. I store Docbook XML in git, and when a packaged
> tarball
> gets prepared it includes the generated nroff man pages, for direct
> installation.
>
> I'm not familiar with asciidoc, but that workflow seems analogous. When
> you
> wrote that you were contemplating large scale man page updates I thought
> you
> meant manual editing of nroff. Scary, scary thought…
>
> >   Also note that since NUT v2.8.3 we added support for `configure`
> options to
> > assign man section codes (numbers or not) for systems that do not follow
> suit
> > of Linux and BSD numbering (e.g. in Solaris/illumos, the system commands
> are
> > historically not "8" but "1m"). Previously this required strange patch
> files
> > on packager side, a burden to be revised/updated for each NUT release;
> now it
> > requires just a few configure options that can be left in the recipe
> once and
> > forever.
>
> Yowza. Solaris is still around?
>
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