Okay. I see. Will investigate this as an option. Thanks for the inputs. -alan
Rafael Vanoni wrote: > 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 > -- Alan McClellan OpenSolaris Documentation Community Manager #32171 +1 719-352-0993 http://blogs.sun.com/docexchange/
