Re: man-pages-linux needs case sensitive directories

[Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@Shaw.ca>]

On 2023-02-15 02:22, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Feb 15 00:11, Brian Inglis wrote:
>> Linux man pages 6.03 has been released.
>> I realized that some of the man pages are case sensitive e.g. _[Ee]xit.2,
>> {NAN,nan}.3, perhaps others.
>> I took care of my own system using commands like below, but would appreciate
>> advice on whether there is any better portable or Cygwin specific approach,
>> and what are the opinions on the best way to handle this in the cygport for
>> download and install?
>> Is this supported by Cygwin on Windows 10 versions >= [20]18-03 with the
>> directory attribute set, are there likely to be any problems with git, or in
>> general with POSIX<->Windows file names?
>> $ cd /usr/share/man/linux/
>> $ for s in man?; do fsutil file setCaseSensitiveInfo $s; done

> You can do this in Cygwin with the chattr(1) tool, see chattr --help.

Thanks Corinna,

I thought I remembered something but git and ml searches got no useful hits.

> The hint "WSL must be installed" appears to be outdated, at least on
> Windows 11.  There are two approaches for case-sensitivity, see
>    https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-casesensitive
>    https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-casesensitivedirs
> However, as part of the distro, the package must not rely on
> case-sensitivity.  We have to assume that most users are using Windows
> in default settings.  And we still support Windows versions prior to
> Windows 10 1803.  But even then, I encountered serious trouble with
> case-sensitive directories on remote shares, see
>    https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/3885
> so you'd get into trouble if the Cygwin installation is on a share.

I noticed that and other issues, like needing to pre-create and fsutil/chattr 
the directories before extraction.

> For colliding man pages, what you can do is to append a character to
> the man page file, so you can install both.  For instance:
>    exit.2
>    Exit.2a
>    nan.3
>    NAN.3a
> Kind of like that.

Thanks much for that great idea!
I will check if it will extract with:

TAR_OPTIONS="--transform=s,_Exit.2,_Exit.2u, --transform=s,NAN.3,NAN.3u, 
--show-transform-names"

as those 2 files are small .so to man2/_exit.2 and man3/INFINITY.3 respectively, 
and note suffix "u" to make Uppercase Unique and deal with case conflicts.

I have also noticed that man -m, --system=a,b priority is alphabetic, so 
-mman,linux displays Linux instead of Cygwin man pages, so will use 
man-pages-linux instead, and provide linux as a convenient interactive symlink 
for backward compatibility, and if anyone wants to see Linux over Cygwin.

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis			Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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