Re: Splitting man pages

2003-12-19 Thread Frank Küster
blacksheep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Hallo folks! > I had to wrote a lot of man pages for a multiple-binary package. > They have to include all the same portion of text for full explanation. > A first solution I found was to provide an additional troff document >

Re: Splitting man pages

2003-12-19 Thread Frank Küster
blacksheep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Hallo folks! > I had to wrote a lot of man pages for a multiple-binary package. > They have to include all the same portion of text for full explanation. > A first solution I found was to provide an additional troff document >

Re: Splitting man pages

2003-12-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 06:55:38PM +0100, blacksheep wrote: > I had to wrote a lot of man pages for a multiple-binary package. > They have to include all the same portion of text for full > explanation. A first solution I found was to provide an > additional troff document w

Re: Splitting man pages

2003-12-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 06:55:38PM +0100, blacksheep wrote: > I had to wrote a lot of man pages for a multiple-binary package. > They have to include all the same portion of text for full > explanation. A first solution I found was to provide an > additional troff document w

Re: Splitting man pages

2003-12-18 Thread Nathaniel W. Turner
Hi Paolo! On Thursday 18 December 2003 12:55, blacksheep wrote: > .so /usr/share//additional.1 This is a bit esoteric, but I export /usr/share/man from one of my systems and mount it (as /usr/local/share/man) on some others, so that I do not have to install manpages on every system. If I under

Re: Splitting man pages

2003-12-18 Thread Nathaniel W. Turner
Hi Paolo! On Thursday 18 December 2003 12:55, blacksheep wrote: > .so /usr/share//additional.1 This is a bit esoteric, but I export /usr/share/man from one of my systems and mount it (as /usr/local/share/man) on some others, so that I do not have to install manpages on every system. If I under

Re: Splitting man pages

2003-12-18 Thread Joshua Kwan
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 06:55:38PM +0100, blacksheep wrote: > .so additional.1 > > But lintian shout out something like: > > WHAT IS THAT FOR ? You should not provide a mapage with no corresponding > binary ! That would be bad if some package someday provides a /usr/bin/additional. >

Re: Splitting man pages

2003-12-18 Thread Joshua Kwan
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 06:55:38PM +0100, blacksheep wrote: > .so additional.1 > > But lintian shout out something like: > > WHAT IS THAT FOR ? You should not provide a mapage with no corresponding binary ! That would be bad if some package someday provides a /usr/bin/additional. >

Splitting man pages

2003-12-18 Thread blacksheep
Hallo folks! I had to wrote a lot of man pages for a multiple-binary package. They have to include all the same portion of text for full explanation. A first solution I found was to provide an additional troff document which any man page would include as

Splitting man pages

2003-12-18 Thread blacksheep
Hallo folks! I had to wrote a lot of man pages for a multiple-binary package. They have to include all the same portion of text for full explanation. A first solution I found was to provide an additional troff document which any man page would include as