Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2020 11:54:25 +0200 From: Michael Gmelin <freebsd@grem.de> To: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@freebsd.org> Cc: Kurt Jaeger <pi@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-ports@freebsd.org" <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How do port man pages get into https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi? Message-ID: <20200901115425.4da120d4@bsd64.grem.de> In-Reply-To: <CAMWY7CBCzSmkfZ6jf1HoSAJfCqxoi0dgjpjaqqxUTDM4CULWVQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <20200826162041.2f7f9676@bsd64.grem.de> <20200826145330.GN3539@home.opsec.eu> <20200826180911.6c3303ff@bsd64.grem.de> <20200826163751.GO1265@fc.opsec.eu> <20200826184711.512a3b9c@bsd64.grem.de> <20200826165046.GP1265@fc.opsec.eu> <CAMWY7CBCzSmkfZ6jf1HoSAJfCqxoi0dgjpjaqqxUTDM4CULWVQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 31 Aug 2020 20:33:34 +0200 Wolfram Schneider <wosch@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Wed, 26 Aug 2020 at 18:50, Kurt Jaeger <pi@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > > Hi! > > > > > > man.cgi has provisions for most of this already, it's only > > > > missing some job to regulary extract the latest > > > > > > > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/amd64/13.0-CURRENT/ports.txz > > > > > > > > for the current tree of the manuals. > > > > > > How does it actually create the pages though? > > > > wosch probably knows this. > > Indeed ;-) Thanks! > > The ports manual pages will be updated once when a new release comes > out. Maybe every 3-9 months. The update takes hours and a lot of > resources (60GB download of all packages and unpacking). > It would be cool if you could share the scriptwork that does this. Getting to a higher update frequency for ports would be really useful, but it feels like that this will require coordination between different teams/individuals. > -Wolfram Do you have any idea why the man page below isn't included? > > > E.g., the > > > man page paperless(7) created by deskutils/py-paperless [0] still > > > isn't available over man.cgi, even though the port was created a > > > long time before 12.1 was released and is in 12.1's ports.txz. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Gmelin
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