Re: man pages
On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Jeff Noxon wrote:
: Doesn't dwww already do this, and more?
It may; I don't know :) Does it? If so, then someone's done the hard
work already!
:
: You'd have to manually extract all the manpages for the debs you
: don't have installed... But otherwise, I don't think there is any
: work involved.
Well, this is the root of my question, I guess ... should I use dpkg to
unpack them, or what? They're simply ar files, or so I've been told,
but I have little experience with dpkg internals.
Thanks for the reply. I'll check out dwww.
:
: Jeff
:
: On Fri, Mar 06, 1998 at 02:38:17PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote:
: > I have a strange request ... here goes.
: >
: > We're starting to use Debian quite a bit here. Of course, each PC has a
: > different configuration. It would be helpful if I could install all
: > (well, mostly all, anyway) of the manpages on one server, and serve them
: > out via man2html for the rest of the users. They already understand the
: > browser interface.
: >
: > Given that I have a mirror of Debian already, how would I go about
: > extracting the manpages? Currently, I can get to a manpage if the
: > package has been installed on the webserver. I'm guessing I can just
: > unpack each deb and grab the manpages out of it ... am I missing
: > anything here?
:
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