docs/163877: apm(4) is not installed

Glen Barber gjb at FreeBSD.org
Fri Jan 6 21:50:11 UTC 2012


The following reply was made to PR docs/163877; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Glen Barber <gjb at FreeBSD.org>
To: alonsoschaich at gmx.de
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, freebsd-doc at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: docs/163877: apm(4) is not installed
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 16:41:41 -0500

 On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 09:28:06PM +0000, Schaich at FreeBSD.org wrote:
 > >Environment:
 > FreeBSD harmony.localnet.edu 9.0-STABLE FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE #2 r229560: Thu Jan  5 08:29:51 CET 2012     alonso at harmony.localnet.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
 > >Description:
 > APM(8) refers to APM(4) in it's SEE ALSO section. However APM(4) was not installed here.
 > I assume that this is due to APM(4) being in
 > share/man/man4/man4.i386/apm.4
 > i.e. it probably only gets installed on i386.
 
 I believe apm(4) is an i386-specific device.  At least, since very old
 r6411:
 
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 r6411 | wollman | 1995-02-14 20:20:03 -0500 (Tue, 14 Feb 1995) | 2 lines
 
 Move apm(4) to i386 section, since it is i386-specific.
 
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 Glen
 



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