Re: Man pages?

["Christian T. Steigies" <cts@debian.org>]

On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 01:50:05PM +0100, Lars Hecking wrote:
> 
>  Stupid question alert: where in 2.2 are the man pages for sections
>  other than 1? The man pages v. 1.29 package is installed, and I
>  didn't see any other related packages on the CD.
manpages_1.29-2.deb:
 Description: Man pages about using a Linux system.
  This package contains the Linux man pages for these sections:
   * 4 = Devices (e.g. hd, sd).
   * 5 = File formats and protocols, syntaxis of several system
     files (e.g. wtmp, /etc/passwd, nfs).
   * 7 = Conventions and standards, macro packages, etc.
     (e.g. nroff, ascii).
  .
  Sections 1, 6 and 8 are provided by the respective applications. This
  package only includes the intro man page describing the section.

drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2000-03-25 22:24:01 ./usr/share/man/man1/
-rw-r--r-- root/root       839 1999-11-10 23:38:09 ./usr/share/man/man1/intro.1.gz
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2000-03-25 22:24:01 ./usr/share/man/man2/
-rw-r--r-- root/root      3002 2000-03-09 02:30:02 ./usr/share/man/man2/intro.2.gz
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2000-03-25 22:24:01 ./usr/share/man/man3/
-rw-r--r-- root/root      1220 1999-11-27 16:43:45 ./usr/share/man/man3/intro.3.gz
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2000-03-25 22:24:01 ./usr/share/man/man4/
-rw-r--r-- root/root      1947 2000-03-01 23:51:33 ./usr/share/man/man4/dsp56k.4.gz
-rw-r--r-- root/root      1102 1999-11-27 16:41:39 ./usr/share/man/man4/fifo.4.gz
[...]

Whats your problem? Maybe youre looking in /usr/man instead of
/usr/share/man? Upgrade problem?

manpages-dev_1.29-2.deb:
 Description: Linux-development man pages.
  These man pages describe the Linux programming interface, including
  these two sections:
   * 2 = Linux system calls.
   * 3 = Libc calls (note that a more comprehensive source of information
     may be found in the glibc-doc package).

Plus manpage-<country>, is that not enough?

Christian