We need to update all the man pages to the most current versions, so please contribute man page sets to your favorite OS environment (tar.gz with os and version) and I will add them.
Please tar like this:
Then something like this (based on your OS environment):
All man pages should be gzipped (.gz extension) and please dereference all symlinks when you tar all files. Thanks.
very good point to update our man pages and offer recent and up-to-date versions. Not sure if creating and sending tons of GB is too efficient. And, I'm pretty sure the man pages on my system are not 100% complete. Would it make sense to just provide a line like Ubuntu Manpage?
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No.. Need the full page distributions (without symlinks and no hard links if possible), not links to other sites and place.
Links to other sites change, break and are harder to maintain than the distros on site.
I already have written the the code to process most man page formats, and will write more later this year (for the odds ones like AIX, etc).
Plus, many of the pages in our repo are from older UNIXes which are not upgrading. We need the current man page repos from the UNIX and Linux distros which are still actively evolving.
Thanks.
EDIT:
I have no objections if anyone wants to build and maintain a page or two of links to on-line man pages for all varieties of UNIX and Linux. If you do, please include a link to where we can also download the complete man page distribution in (in a tar.gz file for example).
For my project, I need the actual troff / groff formatted man pages, in a directory tree with man pages in sections (directories)...
Like this:
And a section directory looks like this (with all files gzipped, if possible, it not, I will gzip them myself):
No symbolic links (all should be resolved when tar'ed up)... Thanks.
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Admin note:
Just when thru all distributions with dead symbolic links and removed them. Before a lot of people sent us distributions in tar files but they did not resolve the symlinks when they tarred... this caused a lot of bad entries in the repo.
Also, just made sure all man pages were gzipped, as there are some problems displaying the pages when the pages are not gzipped.
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