Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 20:02:43 +0000 From: Ceri <setantae@submonkey.net> To: Hiten Pandya <hitmaster2k@yahoo.com> Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Entities for manpages installed by ports Message-ID: <20020131200243.GA50540@rhadamanth> In-Reply-To: <20020131195933.627.qmail@web21103.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20020131193136.GA49952@rhadamanth> <20020131195933.627.qmail@web21103.mail.yahoo.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 11:59:33AM -0800, Hiten Pandya wrote: > > > How do I deal with references to manual pages > > installed by ports ? > > > Someone. Please. Help. > > hi, > > I think we need to re-structure the way we reference > to man pages from the docs. We should make it in > such a way, that all the man pages that are supported > by /cgi/man.cgi can be referenced, let that be > NetBSD's > set or our own set of man pages.. or ports... > > I am saying we should make a new tag called <man> or > something like <manref>. > > For example: > > <manref section="8" name="sysinstall" > base="FREEBSD44-REL"> > > The above tag would produce the following HTML: > <a > href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sysinstall&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+4.4-RELEASE">; > > For the PDF, it would just produce: sysinstall(8) > > I think this would be a great way to solve our > dillema ;) > > Suggestions? I like it - I assume that the package building cluster could somehow feed man.cgi with all the manpages for the ports ? For the moment I'm going with : This configuration file is described by the <filename>dhcpd.conf.5<\filename> manual page installed by the port. for my patch, but long term the above would be nice. -- keep a mild groove on To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20020131200243.GA50540>