01-13-2010
Not sure i quite understand the question. Can you elaborate a bit more?
You don't need to understand the "Core of Unix" to be able to build a server. The installation process is very much interactive / automated on most of the installs your likely to come across these days - there are exceptions though when it comes to distros like gentoo / crux linux etc.
for the most part all you need to do these days is decide on a disk layout for your OS and the packages you'd like the installer to install for you.
if your just messing about as a learning process - (certainly in my experience) you'll end up installing the entire application suite and playing around with any configuration tools that are provided as part of the install.
this will give you a baseline for future installs as you'll then be able to learn how to install / configure packages / patches etc ...
only then will you want to rebuild the server installing only the things that you require.
Last edited by Celtic_Monkey; 01-13-2010 at 10:42 AM..
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dh_installmanpages
DH_INSTALLMANPAGES(1) Debhelper DH_INSTALLMANPAGES(1)
NAME
dh_installmanpages - old-style man page installer (deprecated)
SYNOPSIS
dh_installmanpages [debhelperoptions] [file...]
DESCRIPTION
dh_installmanpages is a debhelper program that is responsible for automatically installing man pages into usr/share/man/ in package build
directories.
This is a DWIM-style program, with an interface unlike the rest of debhelper. It is deprecated, and you are encouraged to use
dh_installman(1) instead.
dh_installmanpages scans the current directory and all subdirectories for filenames that look like man pages. (Note that only real files
are looked at; symlinks are ignored.) It uses file(1) to verify that the files are in the correct format. Then, based on the files'
extensions, it installs them into the correct man directory.
All filenames specified as parameters will be skipped by dh_installmanpages. This is useful if by default it installs some man pages that
you do not want to be installed.
After the man page installation step, dh_installmanpages will check to see if any of the man pages are .so links. If so, it changes them to
symlinks.
OPTIONS
file ...
Do not install these files as man pages, even if they look like valid man pages.
BUGS
dh_installmanpages will install the man pages it finds into all packages you tell it to act on, since it can't tell what package the man
pages belong in. This is almost never what you really want (use -p to work around this, or use the much better dh_installman(1) program
instead).
Files ending in .man will be ignored.
Files specified as parameters that contain spaces in their filenames will not be processed properly.
SEE ALSO
debhelper(7)
This program is a part of debhelper.
AUTHOR
Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
11.1.6ubuntu2 2018-05-10 DH_INSTALLMANPAGES(1)