[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#848121: Bug#848121: File conflict between manpages and initscripts

[Michael Biebl]

On Thu, 15 Dec 2016 11:10:18 -0200 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
<hmh at debian.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Dec 2016, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) writes ("Re: Bug#848121: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] File conflict between manpages and initscripts"):
> > > On 14 December 2016 at 16:45, Ian Jackson
> > > <ijackson at chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
> > > >  - rename the manpage about /etc/default/tmpfs to tmnfs-config(5)
> > > >    (or something, better name welcome).
> > > 
> > > FWIW, I think this may be the best option.
> > 
> > I do see that the arguments against changing all the filesystem
> > manpages are pretty strong.
> > 
> > It's not quite clear to me quite who the maintainers of the sysvinit
> > package are - ie, who needs to agree.  I have been following the
> 
> Consider this a vote for the use of tmpfs-config(5) in initscripts,
> since tmpfs(5<whatever>) will require "apropos tmpfs" anyway to find it.

tmpfs-config(5) sounds like an acceptable name to me. So if this is
considered a vote, here is a +1 from me :-)

> Actually, in hindsight, that /etc/default/tmpfs config file was a bad
> idea.  It should have always been "either override in /etc/fstab or
> stick with the defaults".

I agree here as well. But that's water unter the bridge.

For anyone making the change in initscripts to rename the man page,
please also make sure to rename the reference in /etc/default/tmpfs,
which currently contains

# Configuration for tmpfs filesystems mounted in early boot, before
# filesystems from /etc/fstab are mounted.  For information about
# these variables see the tmpfs(5) manual page.





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