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Wishlist: extend the man-site role to support multiple repos

Open ericonr opened this issue 5 years ago • 4 comments

Besides the arch specific repositories, xmandump could go through the nonfree packages. This would allow us to display the man pages for utilities such as nvidia-smi.

xmandump can do multiple repodatas already, so we'd only need to extend the script a bit. I guess the main issue is legality for displaying these pages? Since we already distribute the packages I don't think it would be a huge issue, but I could be missing something.

ericonr avatar Sep 10 '20 04:09 ericonr

I don't think there's any issue for just showing the man pages, that would be a pretty sorry state of affairs and would likely only be the case for non-redistributable packages like google-chrome or wps-office. If the script can be extended with minimal effort, then in my opinion this is worth doing.

the-maldridge avatar Sep 10 '20 06:09 the-maldridge

From a cursory glance, it looked like that was the case. I will open a PR later, then :D

ericonr avatar Sep 10 '20 06:09 ericonr

I think based on @classabbyamp 's work this is now done. Can you verify that what you wanted works now @ericonr ?

the-maldridge avatar Sep 18 '22 01:09 the-maldridge

https://man.voidlinux.org/man1/nvidia-smi.1 exists so we can probably close this

classabbyamp avatar Oct 23 '23 04:10 classabbyamp

Indeed

Sorry for the delay!

ericonr avatar Sep 28 '24 05:09 ericonr