From: "Soren Andersen" <soren_andersen@speedymail.org>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Updated Gnu tools manpages, maybe you'd like to know? ('gnumaniak')
Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2002 23:05:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020107070120.C150939407C@fastmail.fm> (raw)
Hello List Readers,
I checked the archives and didn't see signs that this was previously known: I came across a project ("gnumaniak") that is creating more updated man pages for (many of the core) Gnu apps we use ...
http://www.userfriendly.net/linux/RPM/contrib/noarch/noarch/gnumaniak-1.4-1.noarch.html
This seems like a good thing ... I know the GNU org prefer info docus as a policy, and are not keeping the manpages current. Several times i haven't had `info' working but man was, so i think this is a good thing. Not trying to argue policy or anything, just sharing information.
As an aside: the packaging posed a significant obstacle for me: this is done up as an rpm, and I didn't have any `rpm', and so I downloaded the `rpm' Cygwin port from:
http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/users/cwilson/cygutils/V1.1/rpm-3.0.3/index.html
and tried to install it. I didn't see anything (in time) telling me to `touch /etc/mtab' after running `rpm --initdb' tho, and so i cannot say I have it running yet (I'll have to reboot into NT before i can try to apply this newly-acquired information...).
BTW -- is there any other, newer, in any way 'better' rpm for Cygwin which i should know about?
Best to cygwin in the New Year,
Soren Andersen
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next reply other threads:[~2002-01-07 7:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-06 23:05 Soren Andersen [this message]
2002-01-07 4:21 ` Gerrit P. Haase
2002-01-08 1:19 ` Soren Andersen
2002-01-08 3:03 ` Robert Collins
2002-01-08 15:05 ` Soren Andersen
2002-01-08 15:12 ` Robert Collins
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