From: Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: [ITP] man-pages-linux 5.13
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2021 15:11:04 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c6c564b9-87be-4aef-4e87-c3a9368260ee@SystematicSw.ab.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YEeWCSSvXBI6h8CB@calimero.vinschen.de>
Hi folks,
I would like to provide Cygwin packages for the Linux kernel man pages
project, for those who are concerned about interoperability and
portability, from Michael Kerrisk (http://man7.org/), who also releases
man-pages-posix, and just released Linux man-pages 5.13.
I do it for my own use anyway, to have the latest docs, just to save
flipping to Linux from Cygwin or Windows.
Comments, feedback, issues, opinions, thoughts, suggestions?
I have other approaches I could consider for others' convenience:
* the standard approach where each new release of man-pages-linux
obsoletes the previous; or
* allowing parallel installs with each release under it's own versioned
package man-pages-linux-5.?? and subdirectory and postinstall symlink
linux to the last installed; or
* use update-alternatives to select the release, with the default the
highest version as usual?
Comments, feedback, issues, opinions, thoughts, suggestions?
The install location is under the standard /usr/share/man/linux{,-5.??}
which can only by default be used by specifying
$ man -m|--systems linux ...
but can also be added explicitly to a users MANPATH or alias e.g.
$ alias man='man -m man,linux'
or swap the order to prioritize Linux, or for parallel installs add each
in your preferred order.
Comments, feedback, issues, opinions, thoughts, suggestions?
I have Linux 5.05-5.13 packages available for review as man-pages-linux:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1r3vhlN4fsCAGAtxpVD9PJPVpahCmnIPE
Comments, feedback, issues, opinions, thoughts, suggestions?
If there is sufficient interest in other man-pages-* packages that I
could contemplate offering similarly, I also have kept around *a*
release of each of the below currently linked under my
/usr/local/share/man/ and others may be available including HOW-TOs:
CentOS-7.1 Darwin-7.0.1 HP-UX-11.22 RedHat-9-i386
SunOS-5.10 Suse-11.3
FreeBSD-12-current FreeBSD-ports-11.1-RELEASE NetBSD-7.1
OpenBSD-6.2
X11R7.4
although I am unsure about the availability of releases for some.
Comments, feedback, issues, opinions, thoughts, suggestions?
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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-31 21:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-09 14:44 ITP man-pages-linux Brian Inglis
2021-03-09 15:36 ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-03-09 17:33 ` Brian Inglis
2021-08-31 21:11 ` Brian Inglis [this message]
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