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modulefile man page is in the wrong man section #518

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LaurentChardon opened this issue Nov 14, 2023 · 1 comment
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modulefile man page is in the wrong man section #518

LaurentChardon opened this issue Nov 14, 2023 · 1 comment
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The modulefile man page is in section 4 of man, reserved for special files. It should really be in section 5, for config file formats.

Extract from man man:

The table below shows the section numbers of the manual followed by the types of pages they contain.

   1   Executable programs or shell commands
   2   System calls (functions provided by the kernel)
   3   Library calls (functions within program libraries)
   4   Special files (usually found in /dev)
   5   File formats and conventions, e.g. /etc/passwd
   6   Games
   7   Miscellaneous (including macro packages and conventions), e.g. man(7), groff(7), man-pages(7)
   8   System administration commands (usually only for root)
   9   Kernel routines [Non standard]

I have sent a PR for moving the man page to the proper man section.
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Pull request #517

@xdelaruelle xdelaruelle added this to the 5.4.0 milestone Nov 15, 2023
xdelaruelle pushed a commit to LaurentChardon/modules that referenced this issue Nov 15, 2023
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Modulefile man page moved from man4 to man5
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modulefile man page is currently in the section 4 of man. According to
"man man", this is incorrect, as section 4 is for "Special files (usually
found in /dev)". The man page for modulefile should be in section 5,
"File formats and conventions, e.g. /etc/passwd".

This patch moves modulefile(4) to modulefile(5).

Fixes cea-hpc#518
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