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Bug 177220 - cdrkit-1.1.5.1.ebuild - man page for mkisofs is missing
Summary: cdrkit-1.1.5.1.ebuild - man page for mkisofs is missing
Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High enhancement (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers
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Reported: 2007-05-05 18:45 UTC by Toderel Adrian-Aurel
Modified: 2007-05-05 20:11 UTC (History)
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Description Toderel Adrian-Aurel 2007-05-05 18:45:56 UTC
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 ...
Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-05-05 19:35:42 UTC
`man mkisofs` works just fine here w/ app-cdr/cdrtools-2.01.01_alpha25
Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-05-05 19:37:14 UTC
As for cdrkit, there's no mkisofs, so there's no manpage for non-existant binary.
Comment 3 Toderel Adrian-Aurel 2007-05-05 20:11:33 UTC
(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 ...