Oddities at OpenBSD's web-based man pages

ropers <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.openbsd.www
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Not sure if this is the right place to report this, but I noticed two
oddities with OpenBSD's web-based man page system:


1. The man page for the GNU assembler is titled AS(1), but it is only
reachable by looking for as(1).

This sort of seems to be a semi-prominent failure, because a user
who's trying to learn stuff might do this:
- go to http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi , then
- click on the section index 1 link that takes them to
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=(1)&sektion=&apropos=1&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&title=Section
, and then
- click on the first man page listed, which is AS (1)
--> and this will lead to
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=AS&sektion=1&apropos=0&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=
, which currently returns a message of "Sorry, no data found for
`AS(1)'."
Only when the user manually enters "as" instead of "AS" in the search
box is the man page actually rendered.


2. When using the web-based system to look up certain man pages for
*previous* versions of OpenBSD, the version that is shown in the
bottom left at the end of the man page still is version 4.5. This can
be seen for example with the systrace(1) man page for OpenBSD 4.3:
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=systrace&apropos=0&sektion=1&manpath=OpenBSD+4.3&arch=i386&format=html
Note that the version shown at the bottom of the man page (left) is
OpenBSD 4.5, not the expected 4.3. This behaviour depends on section
"1 - General Commands" being selected in the drop list. If "All
Sections" is selected, the correct version is shown:
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=systrace&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=OpenBSD+4.3&arch=i386&format=html


I'm not competent enough to submit diffs to fix this behaviour, but I
thought I'd at least report my observations.

Thanks and regards,
--ropers

PS: OT: If you want to have a good laugh (and risk throwing up a
little in your mouth), you may decide to endure this:
http://www.ranum.com/editorials/corporate-songs/sure-2.htm Turns out
OpenBSD isn't the only group using songs to promote their software. I
like how these other guys brag about their security credentials
towards the end. Well, I LOLed. But I'm easily amused.
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