[libvirt] [PATCH] libvirtd: add man page for libvirtd

Justin Clift jclift at redhat.com
Thu Jul 8 21:07:23 UTC 2010


On 07/09/2010 06:14 AM, Chris Lalancette wrote:
<snip>
> While this is fun and tricky, I'm not 100% convinced that we should do this.
> I would think we would want the same manpage regardless of what options are
> compiled in.  While it could be a bit confusing in that options are listed
> in the manpage that aren't actually available in this build, it's at least
> consistent.  Though I could be convinced otherwise.

I'm ok either way. :)


<snip>
>> +=head1 AUTHORS
>> +
>> + Andrew Puch<apuch @ redhat.com>
>> + Daniel Veillard<veillard @ redhat.com>
>
> This isn't really right, despite what the source comments might say :).  From
> a "git annotate daemon/libvirtd.c", I see at least:

Maybe just reference the Libvirt Community or something, plus give the URL?


<snip>
>> +=head1 COPYRIGHT
>> +
>> +Copyright (C) 2010 Red Hat, Inc.
>> +
>
> I'm definitely not a copyright guy, so I'm not sure.  I know we have headers
> that say this, but as far as I know we don't have copyright assignment for
> libvirt.  Given the list of authors above, I'm not sure if this is correct or
> not.

I just copied from virsh's man page, plus removed the old years.

Should we ask (Red Hat?) legal people for guidance here?

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift




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