On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 09:58:35AM -0500, Lukasz Szybalski wrote: > I am trying to get a local copy of all documentation that is available > from debian. Pleas correct me if I'm wrong but as of now this is how i > understand Debian docs. > > Reading the Debian documentation policy (DRAFT) ch 3 showed me: > CVS access, http://cvs.debian.org/?root=debian-doc which has all of > the references that debian.org/doc has in the manuals-sgml folder. I > can use debian-doc-sgml DTD to to transform it to (text,html,ps,pdf).
Correct. But a few documents (debian-history, ...) are available in XML. Nevertheless you can create it with make. > My next step was to get all the man documentation, and all the > /usr/share/doc/ documentation. How can I do that? You need to obtain the full debian archive (e.g. by downloading a DVD set) and parse all packages ... On http://ftp.debian.org/dists/etch/ you can fetch Contents-i386.gz which contains a list of all files in Debian. You can parse this file to download only a subset of packages. > 1. http://cvs.debian.org/manpages/?root=debian-doc seems to have only > some packages, how these are chosen is not obvious to me. That's outdated and planned for removal sine many years. Ignore it. > Could you tell me or direct me to information that would answer these > questions: > -where can i find man pages for each package? In the packages itself. The are also a few manpages* packages. > -where can i find copy of /usr/share/doc manuals? Nowhere. Jens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
