OpenAFS source tree (this will also regenerate the Autoconf scripts).
Conversion to HTML can be done via any of the POD to HTML converters
- available (there are many of them). Evaluation of the best tool to use
- for OpenAFS and exactly how to do the conversion to get the highest
- quality results is still underway; when complete, details will be
- included here.
+ available (there are many of them), but for best results (particularly
+ for crosslinks), use the generate-html script in this directory. You
+ will need to have the Pod::Simple Perl module installed. If your Perl
+ is not in /usr/bin, run generate-html explicitly with:
+
+ perl generate-html
+
+ It will generate HTML pages in the html subdirectory of this directory.
Formatting Standards
References to functions should be noted like function() with the
trailing parens. The POD converters know how to format these sorts of
references appropriately. References to other sections in the same page
- should be given as L<SECTION>.
+ should be given as L<SECTION>. Man pages for all other AFS commands or
+ file formats referenced in the page should be listed in the SYNOPSIS.
+ List each reference on its own line for easier addition of other
+ references later, but don't put blank lines between them. Don't forget
+ the commas at the end of each line but the last.
Command and output examples should be indented three spaces. Commands
entered by the user should be given on a line beginning with %. If the
don't just report the deficiency again, but any contributions towards
fixing it are greatly appreciated.
- * The section five and section eight man pages have not yet had an
- initial editing pass and many of the section five man pages are
- missing because the original reference page names didn't easily
- convert to man page names. This is currently being fixed. Please do
- not start working on the section five or section eight man pages yet
- or bother reporting problems with them; they will be changing
- significantly in the near future.
-
- * The following commands have no man pages:
+ * The following installed commands have no man pages:
+ bos_util
+ copyauth
+ flushall (Windows only)
fs getcalleraccess
- fs getcrypt
- fs listaliases
- fs newalias
fs rxstatpeer
fs rxstatproc
fs setcbaddr
- fs setcrypt
+ kseal
pts interactive
pts quit
pts sleep
pts source
+ read_tape
+ restorevol
+ rmtsysd
+ vldb_convert
vos changeloc
vos clone
vos convertROtoRW
vos copy
vos shadow
- vos size
+ vsys
* klog.krb, pagsh.krb, and tokens.krb need to be listed as alternative
names in the NAME line of the non-.krb man pages, links should be
* fs sysname documentation needs to include the possibility of setting
multiple sysnames and the resulting behavior.
- * The afsd man page is horribly out of date. It doesn't explain
- dynroot, many options are missing, and some of the options described
- are no longer valid. It also still assumes that -settime is the
- default and says that the system must be rebooted after shutdown,
- which isn't the case at least on Linux.
-
- * All of the paths in the man pages are the Transarc paths. I'm not
- sure how best to deal with the possibility of installing OpenAFS in
- multiple different paths, but it would be good to at least
- acknowledge the issue.
-
- * bos listkeys assumes that you're using the kaserver.
+ * bos listkeys and the KeyFile man page assume that you're using the
+ kaserver.
* I'm fairly sure that the fileserver man page no longer documents all
of the fileserver options.
- * The package man page should probably mention the (pointless) package
- apropos and package help commands, or they could be removed. There
- used to be separate man pages for them, but that seemed rather
- pointless.
-
* There are lingering references to AFS Development or AFS Product
Support in descriptions of options that one should generally not
use. Also, all of the manual references refer to the "IBM" manual.
We should decide how to handle this terminology-wise.
+ * The salvager actually creates a bunch of SalvageLog files and then
+ combines them, but the SalvageLog man page doesn't reflect this.
+
+ * The CellServDB documentation hasn't been updated for -dynroot.
+
+ * In the suite introduction pages (pts, vos, etc.), each of the
+ subcommands in the initial list should be a link to the relevant
+ page in the HTML output. This has been done for the fs intro page
+ and the same transform needs to be applied to the other pages. See
+ the fs intro page for the details.
+
+ * The references to the other OpenAFS manuals, such as the Quick Start
+ guide and the Admin Guide, should be links, probably to the documents
+ on openafs.org.
+
+ * There's no mention of the Kerberos v5 support. At least, we need
+ some disclaimers under klog and friends talking about sites without
+ kaserver (and possibly without fakeka), and deprecation warnings
+ on the .krb varient commands.
+
+ * We need a way to add links to other man pages (kinit most notably)
+ without creating dangling links in the HTML output. This probably
+ means that the HTML conversion script needs to generate at startup
+ a list of all valid man page link targets and not linkify the ones
+ that don't match a valid target.
+
+ * Provide a way to substitute the correct paths into the HTML output
+ from Autoconf results.
+
+ * Currently, the man pages are built by regen.sh, which is somewhat
+ annoying since it takes a long time. Figure out how better to do this
+ during the release process so that end users don't have to have
+ pod2man.
+
+ * Review the sections used for all man pages against what directories
+ the commands are installed into. (In some cases, it may be better to
+ change the directory than the section of the man page.)
+
If you notice other problems, please send them to the openafs-doc list
even if you don't have time to fix them. Someone else might, and we
want to track all of the issues.
git://git.openafs.org / openafs.git / blobdiff