[PATCH:xdm] Install xdm man pages under admin section (8), not user programs (1)

[walter harms]

Am 17.01.2017 01:26, schrieb Alan Coopersmith:
> As best I can tell, it was historically under section 1 mainly because
> the old X Consortium Imake configs only supporting installing program
> man pages there, and didn't have an option for using other sections.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com>
> ---
> 
> I'm sending this out not just for review that I made the right changes,
> but to see if there's general agreement this change is right.  It was
> pointed out by one of our users who thought it odd that gdm's man page
> is in section 8, but xdm's is in section 1.


Yep, this is odd, GDM is wrong here.
(from man (1))

  1   Executable programs or shell commands
  ....
  8   System administration commands (usually only for root)

The section 8 is intended for programms like mkfs,fsck an the other usual
admin stuff, things you put in sbin.

re,
 wh

> 
>  man/Makefile.am  | 20 ++++++++++----------
>  man/xdm.man      |  4 ++--
>  man/xdmshell.man |  6 +++---
>  3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/man/Makefile.am b/man/Makefile.am
> index b71409c..2a42d89 100644
> --- a/man/Makefile.am
> +++ b/man/Makefile.am
> @@ -21,22 +21,22 @@
>  # DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
>  #
>  
> -appmandir = $(APP_MAN_DIR)
> -appman_PRE = xdm.man
> -appman_DATA = $(appman_PRE:man=$(APP_MAN_SUFFIX))
> +adminmandir = $(ADMIN_MAN_DIR)
> +adminman_PRE = xdm.man
> +adminman_DATA = $(adminman_PRE:man=$(ADMIN_MAN_SUFFIX))
>  
> -xdmlmandir = $(APP_MAN_DIR)
> +xdmlmandir = $(ADMIN_MAN_DIR)
>  xdmlman_PRE = xdmshell.man
>  
>  if INSTALL_XDMSHELL
> -xdmlman_DATA = $(xdmlman_PRE:man=$(APP_MAN_SUFFIX))
> +xdmlman_DATA = $(xdmlman_PRE:man=$(ADMIN_MAN_SUFFIX))
>  else
> -noinst_DATA = $(xdmlman_PRE:man=$(APP_MAN_SUFFIX))
> +noinst_DATA = $(xdmlman_PRE:man=$(ADMIN_MAN_SUFFIX))
>  endif
>  
> -EXTRA_DIST = $(appman_PRE) $(xdmlman_PRE)
> -CLEANFILES = $(appman_DATA) $(xdmlman_DATA) $(noinst_DATA)
> -SUFFIXES = .$(APP_MAN_SUFFIX) .man
> +EXTRA_DIST = $(adminman_PRE) $(xdmlman_PRE)
> +CLEANFILES = $(adminman_DATA) $(xdmlman_DATA) $(noinst_DATA)
> +SUFFIXES = .$(ADMIN_MAN_SUFFIX) .man
>  
>  # String replacements in MAN_SUBSTS now come from xorg-macros.m4 via configure
>  MAN_SUBSTS +=	-e 's|CHOOSERPATH|$(XDMLIBDIR)/chooser|g' \
> @@ -51,5 +51,5 @@ MAN_SUBSTS +=	-e 's|CHOOSERPATH|$(XDMLIBDIR)/chooser|g' \
>  		-e 's|DEV_RANDOM|$(DEV_RANDOM)|g' \
>  		-e 's|ARC4_RANDOM|$(HAVE_ARC4RANDOM)|g'
>  
> -.man.$(APP_MAN_SUFFIX):
> +.man.$(ADMIN_MAN_SUFFIX):
>  	$(AM_V_GEN)$(SED) $(MAN_SUBSTS) < $< > $@
> diff --git a/man/xdm.man b/man/xdm.man
> index 0648d71..ef57d8c 100644
> --- a/man/xdm.man
> +++ b/man/xdm.man
> @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
>  .\" from The Open Group.
>  .\"
>  .\"
> -.TH XDM 1 __xorgversion__
> +.TH XDM __adminmansuffix__ __xorgversion__
>  .SH NAME
>  xdm \- X Display Manager with support for XDMCP, host chooser
>  .SH SYNOPSIS
> @@ -1454,7 +1454,7 @@ Kerberos credentials cache
>  .IR sessreg (__appmansuffix__),
>  .IR Xserver (__appmansuffix__),
>  .\" .IR chooser (__appmansuffix__), \" except that there isn't a manual for it yet
> -.IR xdmshell (__appmansuffix__),
> +.IR xdmshell (__adminmansuffix__),
>  .IR fonts.conf (__filemansuffix__).
>  .br
>  .I "X Display Manager Control Protocol"
> diff --git a/man/xdmshell.man b/man/xdmshell.man
> index 8f27193..7bd683f 100644
> --- a/man/xdmshell.man
> +++ b/man/xdmshell.man
> @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
>  .\" DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
>  .\"
>  .\"
> -.TH XDMSHELL __appmansuffix__ __xorgversion__
> +.TH XDMSHELL __adminmansuffix__ __xorgversion__
>  .SH NAME
>  xdmshell \- shell for starting xdm on login
>  .SH SYNOPSIS
> @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ disable logins on that line until somebody types the following as root:
>  .RE
>  .LP
>  On some platforms, one alternative is to disable logins on the console
> -and always run \fIxdm\fP(__appmansuffix__) from \fI/etc/inittab\fP.
> +and always run \fIxdm\fP(__adminmansuffix__) from \fI/etc/inittab\fP.
>  .LP
>  Another approach is to set up an account whose shell is the \fIxdmshell\fP
>  program found in the xdm distribution.  This program is not installed by
> @@ -104,5 +104,5 @@ login to the console directly.  Whether or not this is desirable depends on
>  the particular site.
>  .SH "SEE ALSO"
>  .IR X (__miscmansuffix__),
> -.IR xdm (__appmansuffix__),
> +.IR xdm (__adminmansuffix__),
>  .IR xinit (__appmansuffix__)