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([2001:a61:2482:101:3351:6160:8173:cc31]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id x6sm172029wrg.58.2020.04.20.01.18.42 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 20 Apr 2020 01:18:42 -0700 (PDT) Cc: mtk.manpages@gmail.com, linux-man@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Errors in man pages, here: initrd(4): Markup To: Helge Kreutzmann References: <20200419064805.GA30886@Debian-50-lenny-64-minimal> From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Message-ID: Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 10:18:41 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20200419064805.GA30886@Debian-50-lenny-64-minimal> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-man-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-man@vger.kernel.org On 4/19/20 8:48 AM, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > Dear manpages maintainers. > the manpage-l10n project maintains a large number of translations of > man pages both from a large variety of sources (including manpages) as > well for a large variety of target languages. > > During their work translators notice different possible issues in the > original (english) man pages. Sometiems this is a straightforward > typo, sometimes a hard to read sentence, sometimes this is a convention > not held up and sometimes we simply do not understand the original. > > We use several distributions as sources and update regularly (at > least every 2 month). This means we are fairly recent (some > distributions like archlinux also update frequently) but might miss > the latest upstream version once a while, so the error might be > already fixed. We apologize and ask you to close the issue immediately > if this should be the case, but given the huge volume of projects and > the very limited number of volunteers we are not able to double check > each and every issue. > > Secondly we translators see the manpages in the neutral po format, > i.e. converted and harmonized, but not the original source (be it man, > groff, xml or other). So we cannot provide a true patch (where > possible), but only an approximation which you need to translate into > your source format. > > Finally the issues I'm reporting have accumulated over time and are > not always discovered by me, so sometimes my description of the > problem my be a bit limited - do not hesitate to ask so we can clarify > them. > > I'm now reporting the errors for your project. As requested, each > issue is sent in an unique mail for easier tracking on your side. If > future reports should use another channel, please let me know. > > ** > > Markup B > > msgid "I" Fixed. I need more explanation of all of the remaining: > -- > Markup "linuxrc" > > "It is also possible for the I executable to change the normal root " > "device. For I to change the normal root device, I must be " > "mounted. After mounting I, I changes the normal root " > "device by writing into the proc files I, I "proc/sys/kernel/nfs-root-name>, and I. For " > "a physical root device, the root device is changed by having I " > "write the new root filesystem device number into I "root-dev>. For an NFS root filesystem, the root device is changed by having " > "I write the NFS setting into files I "name> and I and then writing 0xff (e.g., " > "the pseudo-NFS-device number) into file I. " > "For example, the following shell command line would change the normal root " > "device to I:" > -- > Markup "linuxrc" > > "The main motivation for implementing B was to allow for modular " > "kernel configuration at system installation." > -- > Markup "linuxrc" > > "The executable I loads the necessary modules from the initial root " > "filesystem." > -- > Markup "initrd" > > "Last but not least, Linux distributions on CD-ROM may use B for easy " > "installation from the CD-ROM. The distribution can use B to " > "directly load I from CD-ROM without the need of any floppies. " > "The distribution could also use a B boot floppy and then bootstrap a " > "bigger RAM disk via I from the CD-ROM." Thanks, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/