man pages

Vincent Danen vdanen at annvix.org
Thu Jun 15 09:35:44 PDT 2006


* Panu Matilainen <pmatilai at laiskiainen.org> [2006-06-14 22:36:34 -0700]:

> >> Alright.  Latest (and last) modifications to the manpage styles is
> >> attached.
> > Could you please send diffs (preferably against svn) instead of
> > compressed tarballs?
> >
> > Diffs are much easier to check and to review.

True, but these changes are quite hefty so a diff would actually be much
bigger since it will essentially have every single line in both the old
and new manpages.

> I agree, but for this "one big change" tarball is quite ok, diff can be 
> reviewed with svn diff against the repo. However there's a slight problem 
> with this tarball:
> 
> [gotcha]$ tar xjf ~/apt-man.tar.bz2
> [gotcha]$ file *
> apt-cache.8:       bzip2 compressed data, block size = 900k
> apt-cdrom.8:       ASCII troff or preprocessor input text
> apt-config.8:      ASCII troff or preprocessor input text
> apt-get.8:         ASCII troff or preprocessor input text
> apt.8:             ASCII troff or preprocessor input text
> apt.conf.5:        ASCII troff or preprocessor input text
> apt_preferences.5: troff or preprocessor input text
> sources.list.5:    ASCII troff or preprocessor input text
> vendors.list.5:    ASCII troff or preprocessor input text
> 
> apt-cache.8 is actually tar.bz2 of the other manpages (and apt-cache.8 
> itself is missing from it) Vincent, please fix that and resend.

Wierd.  Ok, new one attached.

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