Summary of Problem Reports in Class "doc-bug"
Automatically generated on 16 Apr 2024 11:00:00 GMT
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- bin/52461
- [high priority, open] relative module pathes not documented
- bin/38078
- [medium priority, open] IPFilter lacks documentation almost completely
- bin/39428
- [medium priority, open] wpa_supplicant.conf(5) describes `ap_scan' option vaguely
- bin/46067
- [medium priority, open] savecore man page fails to document kernel fakery
- bin/46142
- [medium priority, open] The cpio(1), pax(1) and tar(1) manpages need improvement
- bin/57736
- [medium priority, open] rtsold(8) compat man page is both imprecise and unhelpful
- bin/9840
- [low priority, open] mt erase defaults to full zeroing of tape
- bin/6536
- [medium priority, analyzed] wscons has no equivalent to PCVT_META_ESC
- bin/26214
- [medium priority, analyzed] mount(8) does not mention NFS options
- bin/32368
- [medium priority, open] NetBSD's gzip(1) usage message should be more accurate
- bin/34733
- [medium priority, open] tcpdump(8) requires default snaplen > 68 for pflog(4)
- bin/47726
- [medium priority, open] The patch(1) man page could use improvements, especially regarding its backup methods [patch included]
- bin/49467
- [medium priority, open] Should disklabel.? refer to mbrlabel.? for how to update the disklable from the mbr?
- bin/52414
- [medium priority, open] cpuctl(8)/cpuctl(4) shortcomings
- bin/52824
- [medium priority, open] config(1) needs to have its "ioconf" command documented
- bin/55917
- [medium priority, open] /etc/rc.d/cgd stalls on encrypted swap partitions
- bin/56975
- [medium priority, open] fsck_ffs(8) doesn't mention level 5 filesystems
- bin/57434
- [medium priority, open] cp(1) -P description is misleading.
- bin/57800
- [medium priority, open] Erroneous openssl manual page naming
- bin/58022
- [medium priority, open] man page for 'df' is inconsistent with actual program
- bin/5850
- [low priority, open] Some games have unclear distribution terms
- bin/9672
- [low priority, open] racoon(8) documentation needs serious help
- bin/16775
- [low priority, open] ed documentation is unclear regarding \< and \>
- bin/25967
- [low priority, analyzed] dump -a not continuing after end of media
- bin/34842
- [low priority, open] rpc_control(3) is undocumented
- bin/41820
- [low priority, open] pppd man page and ip-up and DNS
- bin/41928
- [low priority, open] mt(1) manual states count for erase command is ignored - this is not true for st(4)
- bin/48183
- [low priority, open] Example in man write(2) causes endless loop
- bin/49731
- [low priority, open] /usr/bin/install-sid has no manpage
- bin/50390
- [low priority, open] makefs: several cd9660 "long" options are undocumented
- bin/52710
- [low priority, open] Error in vis(1) manpage
- bin/54003
- [low priority, open] crypt(3) $sha1 is undocumented
- bin/54376
- [low priority, open] hxtool has no man page
- bin/55878
- [low priority, open] Doc error in audioctl(1)
- bin/57269
- [low priority, open] Incorrect example in 9.1 nc(1) manpage
- bin/57670
- [low priority, open] expr(1) man page contains a particularly useless example
- install/56449
- [high priority, open] Diskless instructions suggest an fstab without ptsfs, procfs, etc...
- install/12769
- [medium priority, open] clarify the upgrade notes for when the sets are on /usr
- install/16131
- [medium priority, open] INSTALL.html doesn't give a path name for one-fs local install
- install/47671
- [medium priority, open] How do I manually add an extra MBR style disk?
- install/56953
- [medium priority, open] install notes are slightly outdated
- install/57334
- [medium priority, open] anoncvs via SSH needs: RequiredRSASize 1024
- install/43933
- [low priority, open] NetBSD-5.1_RC4 i386 isn't very helpful when it comes to pxe installs
- install/37012
- [medium priority, feedback] The online instructions for setting up RAIDframe aren't as clear as would be good
- install/55413
- [medium priority, open] Typos etc. in (amd64) INSTALL files for NetBSD 9.0
- install/57335
- [medium priority, open] how to, old school, add a disk
- install/46753
- [low priority, open] INSTALL documents should mention how to use USB images
- install/58067
- [low priority, open] 10.0_RC6 VAX INSTALL.more mentions quasi-nonexistent set
- install/58080
- [low priority, open] i386 floppy count in INSTALL is wrong
- kern/32106
- [high priority, open] config_search and config_found changes not documented
- kern/33952
- [high priority, open] There is no documentation for "Wedges"
- kern/9920
- [medium priority, open] gre and ipip documentation not complete, wrong, or something
- kern/26709
- [medium priority, open] ath(4) lacks sysctls & more
- kern/32430
- [medium priority, open] There is no documentation on genfs nor its gop's
- kern/34277
- [medium priority, open] the documentation invlan(4) and ifconfig(8) about VLANs in incomplete
- kern/38887
- [medium priority, open] manual pages should describe basic realtime info better
- kern/41361
- [medium priority, open] machfb(4) manual page missing
- kern/45711
- [medium priority, open] integrity properties of file systems are badly documented
- kern/47115
- [medium priority, open] rules for mutex_owned, rw_write_held, &c., are not clear
- kern/49265
- [medium priority, open] struct uvmexp{,_sysctl} contents lightly documented
- kern/55541
- [medium priority, open] mmap(2) needs some updates
- kern/55983
- [medium priority, open] shortcomings in poll(2)
- kern/58056
- [medium priority, open] sysctl(9) man page missing CTLFLAG_ANYNUMBER and examples section
- kern/58082
- [medium priority, open] mount_null(8) is missing important semantics
- kern/21345
- [low priority, open] Many i386 device man pages are missing
- kern/46883
- [low priority, open] wsdisplay(4) documentation needs improvements
- kern/47170
- [low priority, open] wskbd(4) should document what's read(2) from the device
- kern/47457
- [low priority, open] link address related ioctls are undocumented
- kern/21213
- [medium priority, open] no help available on function "pci_intr_evcnt"
- kern/34146
- [medium priority, open] scsi(4) manpage doesn't match with sys/scsiio.h
- kern/45445
- [medium priority, open] cxgb(4) is undocumented
- kern/46149
- [medium priority, open] Multiboot man page does not mention how to boot with Grub2 ( patch included )
- kern/46240
- [medium priority, open] options(4) and/or ddb(4) should mention ddb_vgapost
- kern/52064
- [medium priority, open] The empty file has copyright declaration.
- kern/52741
- [medium priority, open] Wrong (oudated) information in driver(9)
- kern/12920
- [low priority, open] com(4) doesn't document ibuf floods
- kern/17997
- [low priority, open] RND_COM still broken on i386?
- kern/21080
- [low priority, open] boot(8) for some archs needs note about options
- kern/35781
- [low priority, open] bus_space(9) and bus_dma(9) atomic?
- kern/40448
- [low priority, open] machdep.powersave not documented and can't change
- kern/41884
- [low priority, open] manual for st(4) say different behaviou for enrst devices
- kern/43706
- [low priority, open] ral(4) man page error for mediaopt syntax, Ad-Hoc or IBSS operation
- kern/44759
- [low priority, open] CFATTACH_DECL* macros should be better documented
- kern/44761
- [low priority, open] More autoconf(9) functions should be documented
- kern/45277
- [low priority, open] vfsops(9) and internals guide miss several functions; XXX cleared for internals guide
- kern/50474
- [low priority, open] the internal mutex(9) types are undocumented
- kern/50568
- [low priority, open] No man pages for {rw,mutex}_obj_*
- kern/52228
- [low priority, open] posix_fallocate
- kern/57468
- [low priority, open] kevent(2)'s EVFILT_WRITE description is wrong/unclear
- kern/57676
- [low priority, open] Document sysctl net.inet6.ip6.gifpmtu for gif(4)
- lib/11172
- [high priority, open] the `heimdal' krb5 library documentation is severely lacking
- lib/39244
- [medium priority, open] ioctl(2) doesn't describe domains of ioctl commands
- lib/47554
- [medium priority, open] NetBSD 6.0.1 last(1) looks busted
- lib/52779
- [medium priority, open] strlcpy(3) omits important information (and is poor anyway)
- lib/56640
- [medium priority, open] acl(3) does not tell anything about NetBSD
- lib/56821
- [medium priority, open] RT_ADVANCE() vs RT_ROUNDUP()
- lib/57673
- [medium priority, open] iconv(3) man page has broken link to mailing list archive
- lib/58040
- [medium priority, open] missing mlinks for most of OpenSSL API
- lib/58042
- [medium priority, open] tm(3) man page has wrong type for struct tm::tm_gmtoff member
- lib/52519
- [low priority, open] mprotect(2) man page ERRORS section is pathetic
- lib/36789
- [medium priority, open] openssl command man-pages referenced incorrectly
- lib/46717
- [medium priority, open] libquota(3) enhancements
- lib/50385
- [medium priority, open] signal(3) doesn't mention sig_atomic_t
- lib/13953
- [low priority, open] crypto(3) has bad cross references
- lib/42596
- [low priority, open] getopt_long(3) manual does not mention + and - leading character in optstring parameter
- lib/43919
- [low priority, open] EFAULT is not documented in aio_read
- lib/44208
- [low priority, open] puffs_ops(3) doesn't document advlock
- lib/49534
- [low priority, open] nsdispatch(3) manpage should document that gethostbyname and gethostbyaddr are now called with struct getnamaddr *
- lib/52881
- [low priority, open] shquote(3) has no HISTORY
- lib/54047
- [low priority, open] man page about struct addrinfo is different from its implementation
- lib/54533
- [low priority, open] libperfuse(3) is incomplete
- lib/55116
- [low priority, open] Documentation in MD5(3) is outdated
- lib/55480
- [low priority, open] blocklistd(8) should document the daemons it supports
- misc/39024
- [medium priority, open] Renovated mail-index.netbsd.org lacks "overview by date" page
- misc/39429
- [medium priority, open] improve IEEE 802.11 documentation
- misc/41802
- [medium priority, open] The add disk in the guide is bad.
- misc/42284
- [medium priority, open] dlfcn(3) doesn't document dlinfo
- misc/44173
- [medium priority, open] dump(8) format is not documented
- misc/56670
- [medium priority, open] manual entry for pthread_setschedprio() missing
- misc/57873
- [medium priority, open] Guide suggests manual kernel build before build.sh
- misc/58063
- [medium priority, open] nfs documentation doesn't make it clear enough that it exports entire file systems, not directory subtrees
- misc/58125
- [low priority, pending-pullups] ifconfig(8) lacks lagg(4) interface options
- misc/36687
- [medium priority, open] su man page out of date
- misc/38979
- [medium priority, open] Document syscalls of src/sys/kern/sys_sched.c
- misc/40083
- [medium priority, open] bsd.README should document SHLIB_MAJOR/MINOR/TEENY variables
- misc/43177
- [medium priority, open] OpenSSL manual pages render badly into HTML
- misc/44811
- [medium priority, open] NetBSD WWW hardware support list should split out NICs by network type
- misc/49221
- [medium priority, open] Information lost in man page zic.8
- misc/50864
- [medium priority, open] kernel configuration instructions error
- misc/51642
- [medium priority, open] anoncvs mirror list should mention the sha256 key fingerprints
- misc/53122
- [medium priority, open] guide chapter 32 build.sh section does not work
- misc/54021
- [medium priority, open] Difficult wiki sign-in via OpenID to add comment
- misc/56811
- [medium priority, open] bsd-family-tree needs updates
- misc/57484
- [medium priority, open] Incorrect info on website
- misc/8109
- [low priority, open] exports(5) is wrong about exporting multiple directories in filesystem
- misc/22433
- [low priority, open] More GPRS trivia for GPRS page.
- misc/29875
- [low priority, open] NetBSD Guide chap-net-{practice,misc} patch commit request
- misc/35119
- [low priority, open] some architectures lack boot(8) man-page
- misc/35254
- [low priority, open] telnet (and others?) provide false/misleading/useless error message for name resolution failure
- misc/35466
- [low priority, open] more history in hier(7) would be nice
- misc/36697
- [low priority, open] unexpanded variable in dhcpd.leases(5)
- misc/37387
- [low priority, open] kernel internals documentation omission
- misc/37578
- [low priority, open] bce(4) man page change
- misc/37981
- [low priority, open] shell builtin manpages are for csh(1) only...
- misc/39327
- [low priority, open] incoherent socket man pages
- misc/41775
- [low priority, open] `.St -ieee1275-94' not documented in mdoc.samples
- misc/42929
- [low priority, open] Add quickstart guide to the documentation for newbies
- misc/43256
- [low priority, open] zfs manual pages are confusing
- misc/43348
- [low priority, open] driver(9) man page has strange examples
- misc/43913
- [low priority, open] man pages for ldap_get_option and ldap_set_option missing
- misc/43926
- [low priority, open] lwres(3) and lwresd(8) refer to resolver(5) which does not exist
- misc/46928
- [low priority, open] nand(9) man page doesn't exist
- misc/49827
- [low priority, open] pfil(9) man page is not updated
- misc/50895
- [low priority, open] /usr/share/doc/papers needs more papers.
- misc/53969
- [low priority, open] tar -X flag does not work as described in synopsis and in usage
- misc/54852
- [low priority, open] src/doc/BRANCHES: Some branches in wrong section
- misc/54954
- [low priority, open] Guide's PDF TOC shows duplicate entries for chapters
- misc/55412
- [low priority, open] No dtruss(1) man page
- misc/55788
- [low priority, open] tcp(4): TCP_MAXSEG documentation is out of date
- misc/56446
- [low priority, open] Bridge documentation should include note identifying need for unique mac address on taps
- misc/56984
- [low priority, open] "typo" in web page
- misc/57116
- [low priority, open] misleading description about timeout in poll man page
- misc/57332
- [low priority, open] Replace 'http' with 'https' on netbsd.org links found in man pages
- misc/57347
- [low priority, open] Several man pages have obsolete file location references under /usr/share/doc
- pkg/42132
- [high priority, open] pkg_add can't install packages in 5.0
- pkg/48700
- [medium priority, open] (net/cacti) MESSAGE contains extra '/etc' strings in its instruction
- pkg/49441
- [medium priority, open] GPG key that signs the pkg-vulnerabilities file is extremely had to find
- pkg/50156
- [medium priority, open] pkg_install.conf(5) wrong default file location description
- pkg/56656
- [medium priority, open] Improve documentation for pkg_add configuration
- pkg/58008
- [medium priority, open] "After obtaining pkgsrc, the pkgsrc directory now contins ..." but how?
- pkg/36371
- [medium priority, open] SU_CMD, sudo and cyclic dependancy
- pkg/48177
- [medium priority, open] the pkgsrc binary package installation instructions are lacking
- pkg/47668
- [low priority, open] rplayd has wrong paths in man page
- pkg/48994
- [low priority, open] pkgsrc bootstrap broken on current OS/X [10.9 w clang compiler] when using a tarball, instructions at
- pkg/49216
- [low priority, open] published pkgsrc guide pdf is outdate
- pkg/56908
- [low priority, open] links: enable brotli support
- port-amd64/49528
- [low priority, open] Certain manuals present in 6.1.2 are missing in 6.1.5.
- port-amd64/51748
- [low priority, open] Some missing manpages on amd64.
- port-hpcmips/51752
- [high priority, open] Post install instructions, inc installer, unclear for Hpcmips & IBM Z50
- port-i386/13174
- [low priority, open] i386-FAQ booting 2nd disk from NT's boot menu
- port-i386/34986
- [low priority, open] Note that Dynamic Allocation of System RAM as VIdeo RAM must be disabled in system BIOS
- port-i386/28588
- [low priority, open] update the guide for setting up RAIDframe on 2.0
- port-mac68k/37474
- [high priority, open] After installing a system, booting into it, and mounting /, I get a message saying that the magic numbers don't match upon reboot.
- port-macppc/57309
- [medium priority, open] pkg_add: Can't process https://cdn.NetBSD.org ... Unknown HTTP error
- port-macppc/45186
- [low priority, open] install quirk documentation
- port-sparc/45480
- [low priority, open] apc(4) is not documented
- port-xen/37392
- [low priority, open] Xen trademark policy changed
- security/56620
- [medium priority, open] NetBSD 9.2 Security Advisory List Incomplete
- standards/49999
- [medium priority, open] the history and standards conformance of pselect(2) is not documented
- standards/47616
- [low priority, open] Manuals backdate multibyte functions to ANSI C, though A stands for American (the "big ten inch")
- standards/52743
- [low priority, open] awk documenation wrt standards compliance
- toolchain/49535
- [medium priority, open] Examples in BUILDING don't work as-is
- toolchain/57001
- [medium priority, open] sigevent(3) man page is outdated
- toolchain/8282
- [low priority, analyzed] PSD for make not in sync with program and manpage
- toolchain/23821
- [low priority, open] make's chdir to ./obj is undocumented
- toolchain/47019
- [low priority, open] Todo: check build knobs MKEXTSRC, MKARZERO, MKMANDOC
- toolchain/50653
- [low priority, open] elf_version.3: Error in the example section
- toolchain/55257
- [low priority, open] make and bmake do not work with paths beginning with tildes on variables defined on mk.conf
- xsrc/57236
- [medium priority, open] Gude, 9.8, https://netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-x.html#chap-x-xdm is wrong
- xsrc/49035
- [low priority, open] Some XOrg man pages miss keywords substitution
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