94220 - man page for unix installations

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: Build Config, defect, P3)

Description

[Dawn Endico]

Jan Schumann <[e-mail]> was kind enough to write
a man page for Mozilla. Lets get people to review the doc and
we need to figure out what to do with the man page. Should
the installer install it with other man pages? Should it go
in mozilla/man/man1/mozilla.1?


- the man page mentions a version number. I am pretty certain this will
never get updated when we do new releases. I think the version should be
removed or automated somehow.

Comment 1

[Dawn Endico]

Attachment: mozilla man page v1

Comment 2

[Dawn Endico]

*** Bug 29622 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

Hey, can I check this into the build/package/ directory?  It's only really
useful to packagers.

Comment 4

[cls]

Actually, I was thinking xpfe/bootstrap as it's only useful for installations of
 Mozilla-the-browser.  

Comment 5

[Dawn Endico]

*** Bug 96013 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[hacker formerly known as [e-mail]]

Attachment: Generate the manpage as part of the build

Comment 7

[hacker formerly known as [e-mail]]

Attachment: Add MOZILLA_VERSION to build system and remove "history" from DESCRIPTION in manpage

Comment 8

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

Comment on attachment 60602 [details] [diff] [review]
Add MOZILLA_VERSION to build system and remove "history" from DESCRIPTION in manpage

r=blizzard

Comment 9

[hacker formerly known as [e-mail]]

Patch has been checked in.

Comment 10

[Stephane Chauveau]

The man page should give the environment variables
used by mozilla (e.g. MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH) 

Comment 11

[Aleksey Nogin]

Filed a few related bugs:

bug 171632 - man page is not included in RPM
bug 171633 - Mozilla man page should document environment variables.
bug 171637 - Mozilla man page gives wrong location of mozilla-bin