How do port man pages get into https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?

[Michael Gmelin]

@Wolfram: Do you think you could look into this (paperless man page). Thanks!

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> On 1. Sep 2020, at 11:55, Michael Gmelin <freebsd at grem.de> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> On Mon, 31 Aug 2020 20:33:34 +0200
>> Wolfram Schneider <wosch at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Wed, 26 Aug 2020 at 18:50, Kurt Jaeger <pi at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi!
>>> 
>>>>> man.cgi has provisions for most of this already, it's only
>>>>> missing some job to regulary extract the latest
>>>>> 
>>>>> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/amd64/13.0-CURRENT/ports.txz
>>>>> 
>>>>> for the current tree of the manuals.  
>>>> 
>>>> How does it actually create the pages though?  
>>> 
>>> wosch probably knows this.  
>> 
>> Indeed ;-)
> 
> Thanks!
> 
>> 
>> The ports manual pages will be updated once when a new release comes
>> out. Maybe every 3-9 months. The update takes hours and a lot of
>> resources (60GB download of all packages and unpacking).
>> 
> 
> It would be cool if you could share the scriptwork that does this.
> Getting to a higher update frequency for ports would be really useful,
> but it feels like that this will require coordination between different
> teams/individuals.
> 
>> -Wolfram
> 
> Do you have any idea why the man page below isn't included?
> 
>>>> E.g., the
>>>> man page paperless(7) created by deskutils/py-paperless [0] still
>>>> isn't available over man.cgi, even though the port was created a
>>>> long time before 12.1 was released and is in 12.1's ports.txz.  
> 
> Cheers,
> Michael
> 
> -- 
> Michael Gmelin
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