Re: Description to man pages
Hello, in general I like the idea of descriptions of manpages. I would like it even more if it would regard i18n descriptions which are produced by the ddtp server. Kind regards Andreas. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Description to man pages
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 10:01:16AM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote: The best would be if man keyword would bring up a list of man pages with a choose facility when more than one page exists. Maybe this change in behavior could be set through an environment variable. No need. Try 'man -a keyword'. Also, when more than one page exists man will ask you if you want to display the next one it's found after displaying the first one. Try it. I'd rather like it if the menu is shown before not after the first man page. If I knew another page is following I might jump directly there. Also I'd rather like this to be the default if multiple pages where available. O. Wyss -- Author of Debian partial mirror synch script (http://dpartialmirror.sourceforge.net/;) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Description to man pages
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 10:01:16AM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote: The best would be if man keyword would bring up a list of man pages with a choose facility when more than one page exists. Maybe this change in behavior could be set through an environment variable. No need. Try 'man -a keyword'. Also, when more than one page exists man will ask you if you want to display the next one it's found after displaying the first one. Try it. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Description to man pages
On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 11:03:53PM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote: I've now choosen 7dsc since packages aren't commands. How about something more descriptive than dsc? Say, package, pkg, or deb (in my order of preference)? I'm also not very happy with dsc but I neither are with the others. What do anybody else think? If there isn't another man page man keyword will show the package description. You could get a list of all man pages for a keyword with man -f keyword. The best would be if man keyword would bring up a list of man pages with a choose facility when more than one page exists. Maybe this change in behavior could be set through an environment variable. O. Wyss -- Author of Debian partial mirror synch script (http://dpartialmirror.sourceforge.net/;) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Description to man pages
On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 11:03:53PM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote: I've now choosen 7dsc since packages aren't commands. How about something more descriptive than dsc? Say, package, pkg, or deb (in my order of preference)? Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Description to man pages
dpkg -s package This doesn't show the package description! O. Wyss -- Author of Debian partial mirror synch script (http://dpartialmirror.sourceforge.net/;) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Description to man pages
To minimize possible conflicts with other names it creates man pages in section 6 (games!). Of course this can be configured in the config file. I'd rather like to know which is a better place for it. Use a subsection. For instance, somepackage(1dsc) goes in $(mandir)/man1/somepackage.1dsc.gz. This should avoid clashes, and you can pass man the '-e dsc' option to look at those pages exclusively. It might also be a good idea to write to /usr/local/man by default rather than /usr/share/man. I didn't know that man has subsection, the man howto which I found on the web didn't tell it. I've now choosen 7dsc since packages aren't commands. Would it be possible to make it easier to use for those who don't use debiansynch? I couldn't figure out how to get it to work at all - whatever I tried just ended up with 0 processed of 0. I don't have a local mirror, so I'd like it just to use the available file. Actually dsc2man search for Packages files inside the basedir if no distribution list is specified (empty parameter distsfile in dsc2man.conf or if the file isn't found). I've changed the behavior so that searching is the default. Of course the Packages files have to be located anywhere locally inside the searched basedir (regardless of structure). There was also a bug which prevented the search under certain circumstances, but now it should work. O. Wyss -- Author of Debian partial mirror synch script (http://dpartialmirror.sourceforge.net/;) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Description to man pages
Is it better than `apt-cache show foo` ? No if you are a power user, otherwise yes. Beside not everbody has apt-cache installed. O. Wyss -- Author of Debian partial mirror synch script (http://dpartialmirror.sourceforge.net/;) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Description to man pages
dpkg -s package This doesn't show the package description! O. Wyss To show the description of one package use this command: dpkg -p package []'s Henrique -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Description to man pages
On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 11:03:52PM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote: Is it better than `apt-cache show foo` ? No if you are a power user, otherwise yes. Beside not everbody has apt-cache installed. I think most people do have apt installed. $ dpkg -S `which apt-get` `which apt-cache` apt: /usr/bin/apt-get apt: /usr/bin/apt-cache -- Peter Mathiasson, peter at mathiasson dot nu, http://www.mathiasson.nu GPG Fingerprint: A9A7 F8F6 9821 F415 B066 77F1 7FF5 C2E6 7BF2 F228 pgpoSivUMfSFb.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Description to man pages
* Otto Wyss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : Since I hated to start dselect again and again just to read a package description I wrote a script dsc2man which creates appropriate man pages for each package. To minimize possible conflicts with other names it creates man pages in section 6 (games!). Of course this can be configured in the config file. I'd rather like to know which is a better place for it. The script does only create pages if none exists. But for upgrading the force switch has to be used, which means any existing page will be overwritten. The script can be down loaded from http://dpartialmirror.sourceforge.net/dsc2man.html; O. Wyss Is it better than `apt-cache show foo` ? -Thom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Description to man pages
On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 10:45:29PM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote: Since I hated to start dselect again and again just to read a package description I wrote a script dsc2man which creates appropriate man pages for each package. Apart from this being quite cool, you surely know that you can read packages' description via apt-cache show package or dpkg -s package ? Michael, just asking -- Don't come crying to me about your 30 minute compiles!! I have to build X uphill both ways! In the snow! With bare feet! And we didn't have compilers! We had to translate the C code to mnemonics OURSELVES! And I was 18 before we even had assemblers! -- Overfiend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Description to man pages
On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 10:45:29PM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote: Since I hated to start dselect again and again just to read a package description I wrote a script dsc2man which creates appropriate man pages for each package. Wouldn't it be easier to just use apt-cache show package? -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Description to man pages
On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 10:45:29PM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote: Since I hated to start dselect again and again just to read a package description I wrote a script dsc2man which creates appropriate man pages for each package. To minimize possible conflicts with other names it creates man pages in section 6 (games!). Of course this can be configured in the config file. I'd rather like to know which is a better place for it. Use a subsection. For instance, somepackage(1dsc) goes in $(mandir)/man1/somepackage.1dsc.gz. This should avoid clashes, and you can pass man the '-e dsc' option to look at those pages exclusively. It might also be a good idea to write to /usr/local/man by default rather than /usr/share/man. Would it be possible to make it easier to use for those who don't use debiansynch? I couldn't figure out how to get it to work at all - whatever I tried just ended up with 0 processed of 0. I don't have a local mirror, so I'd like it just to use the available file. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
