FS#42864 - [man-pages] hier(7) badly out of date

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Kim Scarborough (chowbok) - Friday, 21 November 2014, 04:44 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Saturday, 18 April 2015, 11:56 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Architecture All
Severity Very Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:

The man page for hier(7) has outdated and erroneous information. It should probably be updated to reflect Arch's directory structure, or left out completely if that's not feasible.


Additional info:

man-pages 3.75-1

Steps to reproduce:

man hier
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Closed by  Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Saturday, 18 April 2015, 11:56 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't fix
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Saturday, 22 November 2014, 19:11 GMT
Feel free to report bugs upstream and tell us what may need fixing in Arch that is distro dependend.
Comment by Dave Reisner (falconindy) - Saturday, 22 November 2014, 19:16 GMT
Seems like a dupe of  FS#37696 
Comment by Pablo Lezaeta (Jristz) - Sunday, 30 November 2014, 05:08 GMT
As the CONFORMING TO section say it based on the FHS standard v 2.2, the latest is v 2.3[1] but if you like me have problems could try the waybackmachine one[2]

they list /bin, /sbin as separate thing (contrary to the actual Arch way) /media as removable device m,ount point (contrary to the last udisk that mount in /run/<user>/disk) /usr/bin and /usr/sbin as separate too.

I thing is better reedit it as how Arch hier work because I habe high dubt that the LinuxFundation (who now is who control the FHS) will want to merge /bin asn /sbin as Arch do, or they will redirect to the LSB thing.

or probably the man-page guys will remove it.

[1]http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html
[2]https://web.archive.org/web/20141113151243/http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Monday, 16 March 2015, 18:39 GMT
This is somehow a duplicate of  FS#37696  and an upstream issue.

The hier(7) manpage is taken form the upstream man-pages project. Feel free to report a bug and changes required for generic recent FHS requirements there: https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/

We won't change that manpage to reflect Arch specific needs.
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Saturday, 18 April 2015, 11:56 GMT
I recommend using man file-hierarchy from systemd pkg. Apart from this Arch won't maintain our own man pages. We use our wiki for documentation.

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