Hi Douglas, Christian Weisgerber wrote on Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 05:27:06PM +0000: > Douglas Ray <[email protected]> wrote:
>> If I get anywhere useful, might there be any interest in >> posting a "manman49.tgz" on ftp.openbsd.org? ... a small >> addendum, for those of us bitten by OpenBSD 4.9's little >> excursion from BSD habit? > OpenBSD has only ever installed the cat pages. That "little > excursion" has been the way it's been done for 15 years. *If* you find an easy way to produce complete and correct manman22.tgz - manman49.tgz file sets, please do tell me, i'm very interested. Those could be used for serving a archive of historical manuals on the web, with semantic search capabilities (the current www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi only searches the title lines). However, i have serious doubts that an easy way to accomplish that can be found. Note that i'm *not* intererested in tarballs where all kind of stuff is missing or incorrect. The most obvious examples what any easy approach is likely to get wrong are pages hidden in unusual directories, having unusual file names, being preprocessed in various ways, and being autogenerated with various tools; and i don't even think that list of potential traps is complete. Regarding the brute force approach, good luck backporting the build system changes 28 times (from 5.0 to 2.2), demonstrating that the backport is correct and not missing any manuals in any version, and then finding a machine that is still in working order, able to run 2.2, and fast enough to do 28 production builds. That sure sounds like a horrific task. Yours, Ingo
