From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
To: Arturo Borrero Gonzalez <arturo.borrero.glez@gmail.com>
Cc: netfilter devel list <netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: some minor tweaks for building doc/man pages for nftables
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 08:16:47 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.11.1403120814010.6264@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOkSjBjJ7f_ANknUa3ojoaHF_+meYFe1dkOCBzOBFdAC3pxxkA@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 12 Mar 2014, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez wrote:
> On 12 March 2014 12:03, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> > quite possibly some of it, but surely the "nftables.xml" file
> > under doc/ should be updated to reflect that the command is now
> > "nft", not "nftables", no?
> >
>
> In Debian, my plan is to provide the same man page both for 'nft'
> and 'nftables' (one being a symlink to the other).
ok, that sounds fine but, just for the record, the *official*
userspace command name is "nft", is it not? so linking to a man page
that purports to explain "nftables" is going to be a bit confusing.
> > anyway, i'll leave this in the hands of the powers-that-be on
> > this list.
>
> In the docbook side, you could try to find a solution that covers
> all/most-important distributions. I would suggest to simply send
> patches so we can review your ideas.
i'll see what i can come up with that isn't distro-specific.
rday
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-12 12:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-12 9:34 some minor tweaks for building doc/man pages for nftables Robert P. J. Day
2014-03-12 10:51 ` Arturo Borrero Gonzalez
2014-03-12 11:03 ` Robert P. J. Day
2014-03-12 11:14 ` Arturo Borrero Gonzalez
2014-03-12 12:16 ` Robert P. J. Day [this message]
2014-03-26 10:32 ` Patrick McHardy
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