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Re: Please Upload: mingw-runtime-3.12-2
On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 04:18:39PM +0200, Dr. Volker Zell wrote:
>>>>>> Christopher Faylor writes:
>
> > On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 04:49:02PM -0400, Chris Sutcliffe wrote:
> >> As discussed, I've modified the man page locations as follows:
> >>
> >> $ tar jtvf mingw-runtime-3.12-2.tar.bz2 | grep man
> >> drwxr-xr-x csutclif/Administrators 0 2007-04-05 14:35:49 usr/share/man/
> >> drwxr-xr-x csutclif/Administrators 0 2007-04-05 14:35:55
> >> usr/share/man/mingw/
> >> -rw-r--r-- csutclif/Administrators 8956 2007-04-05 14:35:55
> >> usr/share/man/mingw/mingw-basename.mingw
> >> -rw-r--r-- csutclif/Administrators 8956 2007-04-05 14:35:55
> >> usr/share/man/mingw/mingw-dirname.mingw
>
>With the newly released man-1.6e-1, I added mingw to MANSECT in
>man.conf.
>
>The naming should be
>
>/usr/share/man/manmingw/dirname.mingw
>/usr/share/man/manmingw/basename.mingw
>
>for man -S mingw <manpage> to find it.
>
> > Sorry but I don't think we're there yet.
>
> > If you're going to put these in their own section then I don't think
> > they need the mingw- prefix. I was only thinking that would be
> > necessary if the manpages were going to be living in /usr/share/man/man1.
>
> > If they are going into their own section then I'd like the manpage
> > maintainer to add mingw to the list of searchable sections.
Thank you, Volker.
Can I get a gold star over here for Chris and Volker for this nice coordination
of efforts?
cgf