Well, no thanks to you bozos I fixed my own problems. These packages are ready to upload. They are a *major* upgrade from the other cygwin-doc package in that they now include the newlib man pages and the HTML FAQ, User's Guide, and API Reference. I tracked down upset and now http://ns1.iocc.com/~joshua/cygwin/ is a real alternate-install mirror.
setups.hint: @ cygwin-doc sdesc: "Cygwin-specific documentation, including man pages and User's Guide" ldesc: "The man pages for Cygwin, including the intro pages, cygwin utilities, and api reference. Also the Cygwin FAQ and User's Guide in HTML and text formats. " category: Doc requires: cygwin man gzip sed newlib-man cygutils @ newlib-man sdesc: "OBSOLETE: Man pages for some system functions" category: Doc requires: cygwin-doc And the URLs: http://ns1.iocc.com/~joshua/cygwin/release/cygwin-doc/cygwin-doc-1.1-1-src.tar.bz2 http://ns1.iocc.com/~joshua/cygwin/release/cygwin-doc/cygwin-doc-1.1-1.tar.bz2 http://ns1.iocc.com/~joshua/cygwin/release/newlib-man/newlib-man-20020801.tar.bz2
