On 28/09/2021 00:04, Brian Inglis wrote:
I would like to provide Cygwin packages for the Linux kernel man pages
project, for those who are concerned about interoperability and
portability, from Michael Kerrisk (http://man7.org/), who also releases
man-pages-posix, and recently released Linux man-pages 5.13.
I do it for my own use anyway, to have the latest docs, just to save
flipping to Linux from Cygwin or Windows.
The install location is under the standard /usr/share/man/linux/ which
can only by default be used by specifying
$ man -m|--systems linux ...
but can also be added explicitly to a users' MANPATH or alias e.g.
$ alias man='man -m man,linux'
or swap the order to prioritize Linux, or for parallel installs add each
in your preferred order.
This is great. Go ahead.
I wonder if there's any scope for putting these pages in section
suffixed L or something e.g. 3L etc., so that pages could be found by
default for things which only exist on linux?
(But possibly that also requires some adjustment to the man configuration?)
Then I guess it would also be nice if a prologue similar to that of the
POSIX man pages (saying "this is the linux manpage, the cygwin
implementation may differ of be absent", could be added)
