freebsd stable - Dec 2006 - Practically missing cpio(1L) man page since Oct 22 2006

A few minutes ago I was extracting information about mass copying with
pax(1) & cpio(1L) on 6.2-PRERELEASE.  I got information from pax(1)
man page, but i found cpio(1L) man page to be rather lacking.  (Yeah,
I saw the pointer to info.)

Is it possible to have a genuine cpio(1L) 2.6 man page available?


I got curious when I tried my luck with FreeBSD man page index ...

  http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi


... and got a genuine man page, (had "FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE"
selected per default).  I found nothing in PR database about neutering
the cpio man page; so went to cvsweb ...

  http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/contrib/cpio/doc/cpio.1


... which was missing the substantial version in there.  I did a
second trip to man.cgi & selected "FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE", which
showed
the rather empty man page.  Just to confirm that I turned to cvs-
mailing list stored locally, and here I found ...

  delphij     2006-10-23 03:33:27 UTC
  ...
    1.3.38.2      +0 -328    src/contrib/cpio/cpio.1 (dead)
    ...
    1.1.1.1.40.1  +0 -558    src/contrib/cpio/cpio.texi (dead)
    ...
    1.2.2.1       +41 -0     src/contrib/cpio/doc/cpio.1 (new)
    1.2.2.1       +563 -0    src/contrib/cpio/doc/cpio.texi (new)


... no wonder (NOW!) that cvsweb did not 330-some line version of man
page as the path had been changed, and I did not happen to misplace my
mind during world build & install, along with some combination of
entry in /etc/make.conf (yup, checked there too;).

GNU, drown thyself with info!


  - Parv

--

The point of MFC'ing cpio(1) changes is that it has fixed some old bugs
that can potentially damage user data.

Personally I'd rather replace it with the BSD pax(1) found in the base
system, if we had a proper GNU cpio(1) test suite to make sure that we
did not break something.  It might be interesting to do check the recent
NetBSD/OpenBSD changes and apply the appropriate ones.

Cheers,
-- 
Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net>	http://www.delphij.net/
FreeBSD - The Power to Serve!

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