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To: Walter Harms , Eugene Syromyatnikov Cc: enh , Alejandro Colomar , linux-man References: <1d5c8ce8-9ba0-4e3b-9866-95047741d5d2@redhat.com> <8d01afa4fa094d0a9cd0d2d74e5c7325@bfs.de> Content-Language: en-US From: Carlos O'Donell Autocrypt: addr=carlos@redhat.com; keydata= xsFNBFef5BoBEACvJ15QMMZh4stKHbz0rs78XsOdxuug37dumTx6ngrDCwZ61k7nHQ+uxLuo QvLSc6YJGBEfiNFbs1hvhRFNR7xJbzRYmin7kJZZ/06fH2cgTkQhN0mRBP8KsKKT+7SvvBL7 85ZfAhArWf5m5Tl0CktZ8yoG8g9dM4SgdvdSdzZUaWBVHc6TjdAb9YEQ1/jpyfHsQp+PWLuQ ZI8nZUm+I3IBDLkbbuJVQklKzpT1b8yxVSsHCyIPFRqDDUjPL5G4WnUVy529OzfrciBvHdxG sYYDV8FX7fv6V/S3eL6qmZbObivIbLD2NbeDqw6vNpr+aehEwgwNbMVuVfH1PVHJV8Qkgxg4 PqPgQC7GbIhxxYroGbLJCQ41j25M+oqCO/XW/FUu/9x0vY5w0RsZFhlmSP5lBDcaiy3SUgp3 MSTePGuxpPlLVMePxKvabSS7EErLKlrAEmDgnUYYdPqGCefA+5N9Rn2JPfP7SoQEp2pHhEyM 6Xg9x7TJ+JNuDowQCgwussmeDt2ZUeMl3s1f6/XePfTd3l8c8Yn5Fc8reRa28dFANU6oXiZf 7/h3iQXPg81BsLMJK3aA/nyajRrNxL8dHIx7BjKX0/gxpOozlUHZHl73KhAvrBRaqLrr2tIP LkKrf3d7wdz4llg4NAGIU4ERdTTne1QAwS6x2tNa9GO9tXGPawARAQABzSpDYXJsb3MgTydE b25lbGwgKFdvcmspIDxjYXJsb3NAcmVkaGF0LmNvbT7CwZUEEwEIAD8CGwMGCwkIBwMCBhUI AgkKCwQWAgMBAh4BAheAFiEEcnNUKzmWLfeymZMUFnkrTqJTQPgFAmagDwgFCRDhXm4ACgkQ FnkrTqJTQPgLlw/+JD7l4tj8l8hAMUlszrlIT6IhKSODzjrGO+6d9Y6T9vyE2kk4Xbn+kdJf uBl+wj2+U15MsQe9Z4RwowIB3YHHXgj53M2OjqOAY/sRWXZVDfmVj03hqW8D7zFxjc0SZ9cI TI0MwrDWc+Fr3naXeo7HhgjUmULfPndxb8NHVV4Ds2DTkZoUMwB8l3dboD+nKi5GbfVBf3Q5 cBw0CPkxPl0hxD9sr5IMgWIKVLtvztMIXv2xWAavqk8pQjk0zCYd46GcA8d9pZuac24e9NbM ZzTxu6cP0sKhub1JFIadyBHtJnEV/8Auc8nXJ63QY3h0QVCJYV35gQeejEdMD94in2XTkxk0 A/xCp32bmSZv5flsmdAIv5LK4jTKLvzd6BSy/v7qlpgQ7sNaxQ/JRd+8YuBIiUVIp/kgGezD qtGZSpvPCFuG3LxsdvAu7JAzBY3sfBd2lSGOeHX/JK0nQ6s97j4HlSuXIabSOdsCI5UGSOq5 thbIqfK3ewUSUB0yGvWf7EyuZugtCZOaFGpvcT3ix9/sP1fTRlJl+bNjMcO8GwedDoy85oeg yLCEV9gejCr+NijLfPYtb1s8o0hYu13uBojFyBv+bkUI5hTQaVLacq7VglA/QLOy/3mtM2v5 4OEotiNXbKypHFKnoks/MFpP4xdwxGX5jU4MgFg80aPFGr0oZVXOwU0EV5/kGgEQAKvTJke+ QSjATmz11ALKle/SSEpUwL5QOpt3xomEATcYAamww0HADfGTKdUR+aWgOK3vqu6Sicr1zbuZ jHCs2GaIgRoqh1HKVgCmaJYjizvidHluqrox6qqc9PG0bWb0f5xGQw+X2z+bEinzv4qaep1G 1OuYgvG49OpHTgZMiJq9ncHCxkD2VEJKgMywGJ4Agdl+NWVn0T7w6J+/5QmBIE8hh4NzpYfr xzWCJ9iZ3skG4zBGB4YEacc3+oeEoybc10h6tqhQNrtIiSRJH+SUJvOiNH8oMXPLAjfFVy3d 4BOgyxJhE0UhmQIQHMJxCBw81fQD10d0dcru0rAIEldEpt2UXqOr0rOALDievMF/2BKQiOA7 PbMC3/dwuNHDlClQzdjil8O7UsIgf3IMFaIbQoUEvjlgf5cm9a94gWABcfI1xadAq9vcIB5v +9fM71xDgdELnZThTd8LByrG99ExVMcG2PZYXJllVDQDZqYA1PjD9e0yHq5whJi3BrZgwDaL 5vYZEb1EMyH+BQLO3Zw/Caj8W6mooGHgNveRQ1g9FYn3NUp7UvS22Zt/KW4pCpbgkQZefxup KO6QVNwwggV44cTQ37z5onGbNPD8+2k2mmC0OEtGBkj+VH39tRk+uLOcuXlGNSVk3xOyxni0 Nk9M0GvTvPKoah9gkvL/+AofN/31ABEBAAHCwXwEGAEIACYCGwwWIQRyc1QrOZYt97KZkxQW eStOolNA+AUCZqAPEAUJEOFedgAKCRAWeStOolNA+D38D/9WnZY9fUmPhZVwpDnhIXvlXgqX cspZJEBWNS5ArFn8CLcje7z9hzX3+86lqkEeohTmlgtTg4ctZzM+XKyWSiqHCRCR+FX5SKaa 1VveBtwvjTSVmtV1m0rNHEvUZ5x47A8NadWqYi6uOQ22FhEqUOiwJ7EHzk4w9W3gT1913XT1 vmkCn6FtQcrQvJT7pP+oA0YIVs8ADayJcqWHM+Ez7L2fpfAzBDhIS7dq2MYU8LQOQAsx1y7H 6njp5dN/OI/aN/RL6XeX1Kxl4Xe+hc+tq457fLAUnmaevUldvKThuj+5/Cd4DW25MxaqinfY m/U6pBQ4ZwQPGWA0f+GKiJcLosSRXxIuEdZAl82ht+KgT3zhV/BvQRmrD6wX3ywPkJap8h4K ibwz3r6NbHKdCX22ok58oE8NAWtmTRTKXDhh8oWOKdIYjX6jJzdb/F8rPNoEY3UiYbaNTxt5 TE9VD+yWilYO796HMXjXenCOlghy3HFmZbsQ4N+FlG6LQD7cnwm56kcrJk1IlnQXOSOd2BA2 qNbM1Ohry3B+1F4Oaee+ZKH2C5y7Kx0y3m1b5X7Wpx76H5BeUAp6dQi6nNYeqM9PglZIMvSe O4uRThl5mMDx8MXQz6M9qQ5anYwre+/TudTfCzcTpgXod1wEqi2ErJ5jNgh18DRlSQ3tbDvG O0FatDMfJw== Organization: Red Hat In-Reply-To: <8d01afa4fa094d0a9cd0d2d74e5c7325@bfs.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 7/18/25 8:18 AM, Walter Harms wrote: >> What makes a valid variant though? >> There is no upstream supported glibc older than 2.32. >> There is no upstream supported Linux older than 5.4 (LTS). > > Maybe, i am using a LOT of embedded Systems and they are using sometimes > really old stuff. So sometimes i am thankfull for information about older variants. There is always a matching version of the man-pages that is the same age as the sources you're working with... and so documents the conditions under which the software was developed? > reminder: man pages are not for server stuff only. Absolutely agreed. Wherever you can cram a Linux kernel and userspace :-) > Same goes for older programms, you can only understand when you have the old documentation. This supports Elliot's comment that you can use the older versions of the man-pages releases for these? > So as long as IA64 is in use, there is a chance some need that info. That information is not being removed from the git history or the available releases. e.g. git checkout man-pages-1.70 There are tags going back to 2004. And very old archives: https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages/Archive/ -- Cheers, Carlos.