On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Jeff Noxon wrote: : Doesn't dwww already do this, and more?
It may; I don't know :) Does it? If so, then someone's done the hard work already! : : 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. Well, this is the root of my question, I guess ... should I use dpkg to unpack them, or what? They're simply ar files, or so I've been told, but I have little experience with dpkg internals. Thanks for the reply. I'll check out dwww. : : 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? : -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet - 410 South Phillips Avenue - Sioux Falls, SD 57104 phone: (605) 334-4454 fax: (605) 335-1173 mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net PGP Key ID: 0xA33B86E9 - Public key available at keyservers PGP Key fingerprint: CE03 10AF 3281 1858 9D32 C2AB 936D C472 -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
