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[Savannah-hackers] submission of Database-driven manual pager suite - savannah.gnu.org |
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Sat, 14 Sep 2002 12:29:55 -0400 |
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A package was submitted to savannah.gnu.org
This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
Colin Watson <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: gpl
Other License:
Package: Database-driven manual pager suite
System name: man-db
Type: non-GNU
Description:
man-db is a suite of software for viewing and managing traditional Unix manual
pages. It was originally written in the early 1990s. It provides the following
commands:
man (the primary way of reading manual pages)
apropos (search for text in manual page headers)
whatis (print a short summary of a manual page)
mandb (build a database of all installed manual pages)
catman (format and store plain-text versions of manual pages)
zsoelim (eliminate .so includes from manual pages)
accessdb (dump a manual page database)
lexgrog (check the validity of manual page headers)
The purpose of the project is to develop and maintain this suite, aiming for a
maximum of usability and stability.
For historical reasons, there are two major free software implementations of
man. This one is used by a number of GNU/Linux distributions, including Debian
and SuSE, and by Debian GNU/Hurd.
man-db is currently hosted on SourceForge, but since I\'m increasingly
uncomfortable with their attitude towards free software I would like to move it
to Savannah.
The bug list for man-db is at:
http://bugs.debian.org/man-db
Its (skeleton) web page is at:
http://man-db.sourceforge.net/
You can download the latest distribution at:
ftp://ftp.sourceforge.net/pub/sourceforge/man-db/man-db-2.4.0.tar.gz
and current CVS is here:
:pserver:address@hidden:/cvsroot/man-db
(empty password, module man-db)
Other Software Required:
An nroff/troff implementation (GNU groff recommended)
Berkeley DB (tested with db2 and db3)
Other Comments:
- [Savannah-hackers] submission of Database-driven manual pager suite - savannah.gnu.org,
cjwatson <=