From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Robert P. J. Day" Subject: Re: some minor tweaks for building doc/man pages for nftables Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 08:16:47 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: netfilter devel list To: Arturo Borrero Gonzalez Return-path: Received: from astoria.ccjclearline.com ([64.235.106.9]:38644 "EHLO astoria.ccjclearline.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753885AbaCLMQv (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Mar 2014 08:16:51 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 12 Mar 2014, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez wrote: > On 12 March 2014 12:03, Robert P. J. Day 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 -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================