[gentoo-user] Re: DVD-cd usage

[James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com>]

Dave Nebinger <dnebinger <at> joat.com> writes:


> > cdrecord -dao dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 -eject speed=2 -pad -data -v README


> Success, at least for what you were asking it to do, and that is to write a
> file named README onto a disk.  Never mind that the disk doesn't have a
> filesystem and the README file is just a file and not a filesystem, just
> write it to the disk.

> Which it looks like it did just that.

> You've now got yourself a perfectly usable dring coaster to place beside
> your monitor as that's all it's really good for at this point.

> Sarcasm aside, you really should have built an iso-based filesystem with
> README on it, then burn the resulting file to the disk.  The man page for
> cdrecord has the details from building mkisofs followed by cdrecord.


Well, sarcasm is fine (I deserve it). However, you have helped me uncover
a simple but profound problem. The system where I'm working on the cd-rw,
does not have a man page for cdrecord. It has the exact same USE flags
as that another system (including 'doc') has that does have the man page for
cdrecord. I thought that if the USE flag 'doc' was in /etc/make.conf, then
all man pages get installed????

So, pretty lame, but that's why I missed the cdrecord man page. I did not 
think there was one...

Any ideas how to get ALL of the man pages possible to all of the installed
software on a gentoo system? 


James

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