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

Chris Lalancette clalance at redhat.com
Fri Jul 9 12:33:18 UTC 2010


On 07/09/10 - 07:07:23AM, Justin Clift wrote:
> 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?

Yeah, that sounds like a good idea.

> 
> 
> <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.

Yeah, I'm just not sure what the right answer here is.  Maybe we just remove
the COPYRIGHT section altogether for now?

--
Chris Lalancette




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