Re: man page

1998-10-24 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-Philipp Frauenfelder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | Hi, | | I've got a package that has no man page. I've some spare time | and would like to write it. The question is now: how should I do | that? What tools do you recommend? Where should I start reading | about these tools? A good way to start is

Re: man page

1998-10-24 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sat, Oct 24, 1998 at 08:26:33AM +0200, Ole J. Tetlie wrote: > | I've got a package that has no man page. I've some spare time > | and would like to write it. The question is now: how should I do > | that? What tools do you recommend? Where should I start reading > | about these tools? > > A

Re: man page

1998-10-24 Thread Richard Braakman
"man 7 man" is a good start. And pick a manpage for a program similar to yours, to see how it's structured :) (There's no one true style for manpages, but it's better to use an existing one than to invent your own.) Richard Braakman

Re: man page

1998-10-24 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "PF" == Philipp Frauenfelder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: PF> I've got a package that has no man page. I've some spare time PF> and would like to write it. The question is now: how should I do PF> that? What tools do you recommend? Where should I start reading PF> about these tools? First o

How to...

1998-10-24 Thread matthew.r.pavlovich.1
...package fonts for distributions with a graphics program. I was hoping to make a separate package...

First time pkg help.

1998-10-24 Thread matthew.r.pavlovich.1
I am packaging xfont3d, xfpovray, and xfcolor. They all depend on xforms. I have the xforms-dev package installed, but when I go to build the packages, the make files cannot find the forms.h file. I symlinked the file to /usr/include/forms.h, and now the I can compile the binary by hand, but I am

Re: First time pkg help.

1998-10-24 Thread Martin Schulze
matthew.r.pavlovich.1 wrote: > I am packaging xfont3d, xfpovray, and xfcolor. They all depend on xforms. > I have the xforms-dev package installed, but when I go to build the > packages, the make files cannot find the forms.h file. I symlinked the > file to /usr/include/forms.h, and now the I can

Re: First time pkg help.

1998-10-24 Thread James Troup
"matthew.r.pavlovich.1" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Package: xfpovray > Architecture: i386 Should almost certainly be `any'; unless the package is really i386 specific. See 4.2.3 of the Packaging manual for more details. -- James