OpenBSD: Why and How (2016)

Re:OpenBSD: Why and How (2016) by IcePic on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @07:18AM (#21523232)

I know these are dist-specific issues, but it seems far easier on linux dists to end up with an installed program (from rmp/debs) and still don't have the manpages, OR, getting a dud manpage that tells you to run "info gnufrotzomatic" and then you run that and since there were no info pages, info will very helpfully tell you to run itself again, since it shows a manpage if the info page is missing.

Semi-recent Centos7:

$ which find

/usr/bin/find

$ rpm -q --whatprovides '/usr/bin/find'

findutils-4.5.11-6.el7.x86_64

$ man find

No manual entry for find

$ more /etc/redhat-release

CentOS Linux release 7.7.1908 (Core)

So it claims to have the findutils rpm installed, which comes with manpages (especially since there is no find-man rpm) but I didn't get them for reasons. You just don't get that kind of experience on BSDs unless you very deliberately unmark manpages for installations. (which could be some kind of usecase, sure)

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Re:OpenBSD: Why and How (2016) by throw7 on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @09:22AM (#21524350)

That's very strange. Probably centos is stripping "docfiles" from the installation (maybe a "container-optimized" install?). You can see which files are marked as documentation with "rpm -qd findutils". On my rhel 7, the man page is packaged along with findutils and I do see it.

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Re:OpenBSD: Why and How (2016) by somerandomqaguy on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @11:41AM (#21526087)

I'm seeing the man pages for find on my Centos 7.7 boxes. Are you looking at a docker container or a cloud image?

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