I was suggesting creating a SVR4 package with the extra man pages that the SUNWman IPS package doesn't deliver. The advantage would be to allow an easier install/uninstall of these aditional man pages - rather than manually installing them.
By extra pages I mean, for instance, man pages for libc(3) routines. Rafael alan mcclellan wrote: > I've had some initial conversations with David Comay about turning the > docs consolidation tarball into a package, and could do something > similar with the man consolidation tarball. For clarification, what's > the use case are you thinking of? Can install the man package via > Package Manager now, so want to be sure I understand what you have in > mind and why you'd want the tarball in package format. > > -alan > > > Rafael Vanoni wrote: >> We could put SVR4 package together and post it in the project page. >> It's not much different than having the tarball available, just easier >> to install. >> >> What do you think ? >> >> Rafael >> >> alan mcclellan wrote: >>> Got it. (That's good input, Roman. Thanks for passing that along.) >>> As you are probably aware, this is a licensing issue, but will >>> continue to push on this front and see what we can do to address this >>> concern. >>> >>> -alan >>> >>> Roman Strobl wrote: >>>> Rafael Vanoni wrote: >>>> >>>>> Spoke too soon.. I was referring to the extra man pages that are >>>>> not shipped with OpenSolaris. >>>>> Would it be possible to create a package with those extra pages? >>>>> >>>> +1, this was brought up as one of the biggest issues that CZOSUG has >>>> with OpenSolaris (and why they use Nevada instead of the OpenSolaris >>>> distribution). >>>> >>>> -Roman >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> docs-discuss mailing list >>>> docs-discuss at opensolaris.org >>>> > _______________________________________________ > docs-discuss mailing list > docs-discuss at opensolaris.org
