is very simple, man pages for mkisofs is missing but mkisofs -version mkisofs 2.01 is not what you see here. This line is only a fake for too clever GUIs and other frontend applications. In fact, this program is: genisoimage 1.1.5.1 (Linux) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: man mkisofs No manual entry for mkisofs but mkisofs -version mkisofs 2.01 is not what you see here. This line is only a fake for too clever GUIs and other frontend applications. In fact, this program is: genisoimage 1.1.5.1 (Linux) this means that: stat $(which mkisofs) File: `/usr/bin/mkisofs' -> `/usr/bin/genisoimage' Size: 20 Blocks: 0 IO Block: 4096 symbolic link Device: 802h/2050d Inode: 20669 Links: 1 Access: (0777/lrwxrwxrwx) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root) Access: 2007-05-05 21:34:08.246269695 +0300 Modify: 2007-05-03 22:19:08.044607265 +0300 Change: 2007-05-03 22:19:08.045607080 +0300 ok ... so mkisofs is only a simbolic link from genisoimage. But for more consistency is not more better to have also a simbolic link from genisoimage man page to 'mkisofs man page' ?. From the ebuild i see that is not a option: cat cdrkit-1.1.5.1.ebuild | grep dosym dosym /usr/bin/wodim /usr/bin/cdrecord dosym /usr/bin/genisoimage /usr/bin/mkisofs dosym /usr/bin/icedax /usr/bin/cdda2wav dosym /usr/bin/readom /usr/bin/readcd dosym /usr/include/scsilib/usal /usr/include/scsilib/scg i'm thinking that a one more 'dosym /usr/share/man/man1/genisoimage.1.bz2 /usr/share/man/man1/mkisofs.1.bz2' line is better ... a lot of burning tutorials and howto's is talking about mkisofs and mkisofs man page, and a missing mkisofs man page can confuse some of us ;-p ...
`man mkisofs` works just fine here w/ app-cdr/cdrtools-2.01.01_alpha25
As for cdrkit, there's no mkisofs, so there's no manpage for non-existant binary.
(In reply to comment #2) > As for cdrkit, there's no mkisofs, so there's no manpage for non-existant > binary. > i see that my point of view is not so clear ... is not a gentoo bug ... but for me is only a cdrkit package enhancement. When you want to install cdrkit is treated as a replacement for cdrtools. In cdrtools man page for mkisofs exist. So, if in cdrkit package a simbolic link from genisoimage binary to mkisofs is created is more consistent to have a link from genisoimage to mkisofs man page. Is so different mkisofs man page from cdrtools and genisoimage from cdrkit?. If for gentoo ebuild genisoimage is a replacement to mkisofs, is more consistent to be also in man pages ... a lot of linux newbie that read burning howto's and tutorials can be more happy ... mkisofs command is more widespread than genisoimage ...