On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 06:50, Eric Spakman wrote:
> Hello Mike,
> >
> >> Ok, but back to the documentation issue. BU will always use the latest
> >> stable shorewall version and even with an older version of BU it
> >> shouldn't be a big problem to update to the latest shorewall (especially
> >> 3.0
> >> onwards). Why duplicate the shorewall documentation on the LEAF site?
> >> Isn't it much simpler to just provide a link to Tom's documentation?
> >>
> >
> > Eric,
> > Aren't we discussing the Shorewall man page?
> >
> >
> > The man page ships with Shorewall, but we strip it for size. This places
> > an onus on us to provide the man page in some fashion. We are not
> > duplicating anything Tom and the Shorewall team didn't intend for
> > distribution.
> >
> > Am I missing something?
> >
> There are no shorewall manpages yet, this is something what will be
> introduced in shorewall 3.4 AFAIK.
> But when they are introduced, it shouldn't be a big problem to commit them
> to LEAF's manpage space. Or am I missing something? ;-)
Eric,
Ah. We are in agreement then, or I think so. Do you still plan on a
"shordoc" package?
The post by Tom to you made me believe Shorewall man pages were
available for current Bering-uClibc releases.
-----Forwarded Message-----
From: Tom Eastep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Eric Spakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Leaf Development <leaf-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [leaf-devel] Documentation in Shorewall Configuration Files
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 11:25:24 -0800
Eric Spakman wrote:
> Hi Tom,
>
> I don't think that it's a big problem. We can always create a separate
> package "shordoc", which contains the documentation, for people who need
> it or embed it in the shorwall package.
>
> We probably only need some help in creating a single text file from the
> manpages.
rm -f Documentation
for file in <shorewall-release-dir>/manpages/*.5; do
man -l $file | col -bx >> Documentation
done
-Tom
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