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

Kurt Jaeger pi at freebsd.org
Wed Aug 26 16:38:01 UTC 2020


Hi!

> > Any ideas on how man.cgi can be made to also display ports head man
> > pages ?

> One way would be to extract man pages from the binary packages we
> provide - this would allow to have man pages for head and quarterly
> branches. [...]

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.

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