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| author | Nicolas Vigier <boklm@mageia.org> | 2013-04-14 13:46:12 +0000 |
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| committer | Nicolas Vigier <boklm@mageia.org> | 2013-04-14 13:46:12 +0000 |
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diff --git a/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2012-June/016610.html b/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2012-June/016610.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..4fc9896d3 --- /dev/null +++ b/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2012-June/016610.html @@ -0,0 +1,148 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> +<HTML> + <HEAD> + <TITLE> [Mageia-dev] Switch to man-db + </TITLE> + <LINK REL="Index" HREF="index.html" > + <LINK REL="made" HREF="mailto:mageia-dev%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-dev%5D%20Switch%20to%20man-db&In-Reply-To=%3Cloom.20120618T155007-940%40post.gmane.org%3E"> + <META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index,nofollow"> + <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> + <LINK REL="Previous" HREF="016596.html"> + <LINK REL="Next" HREF="016598.html"> + </HEAD> + <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> + <H1>[Mageia-dev] Switch to man-db</H1> + <B>David Walser</B> + <A HREF="mailto:mageia-dev%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-dev%5D%20Switch%20to%20man-db&In-Reply-To=%3Cloom.20120618T155007-940%40post.gmane.org%3E" + TITLE="[Mageia-dev] Switch to man-db">luigiwalser at yahoo.com + </A><BR> + <I>Mon Jun 18 15:53:06 CEST 2012</I> + <P><UL> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="016596.html">[Mageia-dev] Switch to man-db +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="016598.html">[Mageia-dev] [soft-commits] [4978] update distro credit for mageia +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#16610">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#16610">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#16610">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#16610">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + <HR> +<!--beginarticle--> +<PRE>Oliver Burger <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">oliver.bgr at ...</A>> writes: +><i> I saw at +</I>><i> +</I><A HREF="http://svn.mandriva.com/viewvc/packages/cooker/man/current/SPECS/man.spec?r1=666363&r2=791691">http://svn.mandriva.com/viewvc/packages/cooker/man/current/SPECS/man.spec?r1=666363&r2=791691</A> +><i> that Mdv did switch from the old flat text based man pages to the +</I>><i> berkley db based man-db. +</I>><i> According to <A HREF="http://nongnu.org/man-db/">http://nongnu.org/man-db/</A> several larger distros did switch +</I>><i> some time ago as well. +</I>><i> So what do you think, should we follow them as well? I have yet to +</I>><i> really look into it, but I wanted to ask for opinions first, so I won't +</I>><i> be spending my time on nothing. +</I> +Yes, there are a few packages where other distros have switched to different +upstreams and we have fallen behind. This is one of them that I had noticed, +and I do think we should follow suit. + +Another is procps, and I already asked about this on this list and people +were in favor of switching to the new upstream, I just haven't gotten around +to working on it yet. + +Another one I discovered is utempter. Fedora and some others have switched to +a new upstream (who calls it libutempter, but the Fedora package name is still +utempter). + +I think Mandriva may have switched to a different upstream of libjpeg as well. + +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="016596.html">[Mageia-dev] Switch to man-db +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="016598.html">[Mageia-dev] [soft-commits] [4978] update distro credit for mageia +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#16610">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#16610">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#16610">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#16610">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |