[Samba] online man pages outdated (latest is 4.17)
Kees van Vloten
keesvanvloten at gmail.com
Sun Nov 10 17:20:33 UTC 2024
Op 10-11-2024 om 18:10 schreef Rowland Penny via samba:
> On Sun, 10 Nov 2024 17:46:56 +0100
> Kees van Vloten via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi Samba team,
>>
>> In the release notes of 4.21 a new setting "sync machine password
>> script" is mentioned and it says "Check in smb.conf(5)", so that is
>> what I am trying to do...
>>
>> When I browse to
>> https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/current/man-html/smb.conf.5.html, it
>> turns out that above parameter is not mentioned on this page.
>>
>>
>> My guess is that something is broken in the release scripting. When I
>> go to the page https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/, at the top of
>> the page there is a list of released versions.
>> It reads: " current 4.17 4.16 4.15 4.14 4.13 4.12 4.11 4.10 4.9 4.8
>> 4.7 4.6 4.5 4.4 4.3 4.2 4.1 4.0 3.6 3.5 3.4 3.3 3.2", this makes me
>> think that the delivery of man-pages failed as of 4.18 and "current"
>> is in fact 4.17.
>>
>>
>> I would be very handy to have 4.21 man-pages here as well.
>>
>> Can somebody have a look at the delivery process for these docs?
>>
>>
>> - Kees.
>>
>>
> Thanks for pointing that out, I cannot fix it, but I am sure someone
> will.
>
> I have to ask though, what is wrong with opening a terminal on the
> Samba server, typing 'man smb.conf' and pressing 'Enter' ?
You can only do that after upgrading to a version, and since I use
Ansible to do that I have to adapt the code before hand. If I don't I am
quite certain something will not work as it did on some machines.
Another reason is that a webbrowser is a lot more user friendly than
"man" on the commandline. But I understand opinions vary on this topic :-)
- Kees.
>
> Rowland
>
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