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

Kurt Jaeger pi at freebsd.org
Wed Aug 26 16:50:49 UTC 2020


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.

> 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.

Interesting.

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