Summary of Problem Reports in Class "doc-bug"

Automatically generated on 6 Oct 2024 22:00:00 GMT

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Category: bin

Severity: critical

bin/52461

[high priority, open] relative module pathes not documented

Severity: serious

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

Severity: non-critical

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

bin/58299

[low priority, open] icmp(8) uses unusual/inconsistent terminology

bin/58583

[low priority, open] config(1): ioconf and pseudo-root directives not documented

Category: install

Severity: serious

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/58357

[medium priority, open] The new DVD install images are not documented

install/43933

[low priority, open] NetBSD-5.1_RC4 i386 isn't very helpful when it comes to pxe installs

Severity: non-critical

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/58080

[low priority, open] i386 floppy count in INSTALL is wrong

Category: kern

Severity: serious

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/58162

[medium priority, open] close(2) man page doesn't guarantee fd is closed even on EINTR

kern/58309

[medium priority, needs-pullups] BUS_DMA_PREFETCHABLE is undocumented

kern/58576

[medium priority, open] ifnet driver model is undocumented

kern/58590

[medium priority, open] kernhist(9) output lines have confusing magic numbers that are not documented

kern/58623

[medium priority, open] KASSERT(9) man page is vague about what header file it needs

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

Severity: non-critical

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/58241

[medium priority, open] setsockopt() sets undocumented errno

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)

Category: lib

Severity: serious

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/58455

[medium priority, open] Missing references for processor-specific ELF relocation semantics

lib/58651

[medium priority, needs-pullups] tm(3): wrong type in man page for tm_gmtoff

lib/52519

[low priority, open] mprotect(2) man page ERRORS section is pathetic

Severity: non-critical

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

Category: misc

Severity: serious

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/58174

[medium priority, open] missing examples for /etc/hosts.allow, /etc/hosts.deny

misc/58314

[medium priority, open] please add the module htdocs to github.com/netbsd

misc/58515

[medium priority, open] struct acct at acct(5) man page is different from /usr/include/sys/acct.h

Severity: non-critical

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

Category: pkg

Severity: critical

pkg/42132

[high priority, open] pkg_add can't install packages in 5.0

Severity: serious

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?

Severity: non-critical

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

Category: port-amd64

Severity: non-critical

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.

Category: port-hpcmips

Severity: critical

port-hpcmips/51752

[high priority, open] Post install instructions, inc installer, unclear for Hpcmips & IBM Z50

Category: port-i386

Severity: serious

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

Severity: non-critical

port-i386/28588

[low priority, open] update the guide for setting up RAIDframe on 2.0

Category: port-mac68k

Severity: serious

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.

Category: port-macppc

Severity: non-critical

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

Category: port-sparc

Severity: non-critical

port-sparc/45480

[low priority, open] apc(4) is not documented

Category: port-xen

Severity: non-critical

port-xen/37392

[low priority, open] Xen trademark policy changed

Category: standards

Severity: non-critical

standards/49999

[medium priority, needs-pullups] the history and standards conformance of pselect(2) is not documented

standards/52743

[low priority, open] awk documenation wrt standards compliance

Category: toolchain

Severity: serious

toolchain/49535

[medium priority, open] Examples in BUILDING don't work as-is

Severity: non-critical

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

toolchain/58699

[low priority, open] [PATCH] Correct reference to nbtool_config.h in tools/README

Category: xsrc

Severity: serious

xsrc/57236

[medium priority, open] Gude, 9.8, https://netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-x.html#chap-x-xdm is wrong

Severity: non-critical

xsrc/49035

[low priority, open] Some XOrg man pages miss keywords substitution

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