Doesn't dwww already do this, and more? You'd have to manually extract all the manpages for the debs you don't have installed... But otherwise, I don't think there is any work involved.
Jeff On Fri, Mar 06, 1998 at 02:38:17PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > I have a strange request ... here goes. > > We're starting to use Debian quite a bit here. Of course, each PC has a > different configuration. It would be helpful if I could install all > (well, mostly all, anyway) of the manpages on one server, and serve them > out via man2html for the rest of the users. They already understand the > browser interface. > > Given that I have a mirror of Debian already, how would I go about > extracting the manpages? Currently, I can get to a manpage if the > package has been installed on the webserver. I'm guessing I can just > unpack each deb and grab the manpages out of it ... am I missing > anything here? -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
