debian manuals

Lukasz Szybalski · External Since: Dec 06, 2006 Posts: 6

Good Morning,
I am trying to get a local copy of all documentation that is available
from debian. Pleas correct me if I'm wrong but as of now this is how i
understand Debian docs.

Reading the Debian documentation policy (DRAFT) ch 3 showed me:
CVS access, http://cvs.debian.org/?root=debian-doc which has all of
the references that debian.org/doc has in the manuals-sgml folder. I
can use debian-doc-sgml DTD to to transform it to (text,html,ps,pdf).

My next step was to get all the man documentation, and all the
/usr/share/doc/ documentation. How can I do that?

1. http://cvs.debian.org/manpages/?root=debian-doc seems to have only
some packages, how these are chosen is not obvious to me.
2. ftp.debian.org/debian/doc has no manuals there.

Could you tell me or direct me to information that would answer these questions:
-where can i find man pages for each package?
-where can i find copy of /usr/share/doc manuals?

Thank you,
All help would be appreciated.

Lucas

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Jens Seidel · External Since: Nov 20, 2004 Posts: 280

On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 09:58:35AM -0500, Lukasz Szybalski wrote:
> I am trying to get a local copy of all documentation that is available
> from debian. Pleas correct me if I'm wrong but as of now this is how i
> understand Debian docs.
>
> Reading the Debian documentation policy (DRAFT) ch 3 showed me:
> CVS access, http://cvs.debian.org/?root=debian-doc which has all of
> the references that debian.org/doc has in the manuals-sgml folder. I
> can use debian-doc-sgml DTD to to transform it to (text,html,ps,pdf).

Correct. But a few documents (debian-history, ...) are available in XML.
Nevertheless you can create it with make.

> My next step was to get all the man documentation, and all the
> /usr/share/doc/ documentation. How can I do that?

You need to obtain the full debian archive (e.g. by downloading a DVD
set) and parse all packages ... On http://ftp.debian.org/dists/etch/ you
can fetch Contents-i386.gz which contains a list of all files in Debian.
You can parse this file to download only a subset of packages.

> 1. http://cvs.debian.org/manpages/?root=debian-doc seems to have only
> some packages, how these are chosen is not obvious to me.

That's outdated and planned for removal sine many years. Ignore it.

> Could you tell me or direct me to information that would answer these
> questions:
> -where can i find man pages for each package?

In the packages itself. The are also a few manpages* packages.

> -where can i find copy of /usr/share/doc manuals?

Nowhere.

Jens

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Lukasz Szybalski · External Since: Nov 01, 2006 Posts: 2

>> My next step was to get all the man documentation, and all the
>> /usr/share/doc/ documentation. How can I do that?
>>
>
> You need to obtain the full debian archive (e.g. by downloading a DVD
> set) and parse all packages ... On http://ftp.debian.org/dists/etch/ you
> can fetch Contents-i386.gz which contains a list of all files in Debian.
> You can parse this file to download only a subset of packages.
>
Hello,
If I wanted to get a file that is listed in contents-i386.gz:

Example:
usr/share/doc/ant/README.Debian devel/ant

How would I do it?
Where would I get it from?

1 Get it from http://packages.debian.org/stable/devel/ant ?
1b. What is the package name for stable that corresponds to devel/ant =
ant***.deb?
wget http://packages.debian.org/stable/devel/ant**????.deb

2. Get it from a package on a dvd ? How would I get ant**.deb from a
dvd? devel/ant?
3. Get it from online repository, same way apt-get would get it?

How are the README.Debian created? Are these text files that each
package maintainer creates or ?

Thanks,
Lucas

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Osamu Aoki · External Since: Nov 10, 2004 Posts: 409

Hi,

On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 02:22:58PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> Am 2007-07-30 17:53:47, schrieb Lukasz Szybalski:
> > Hello,
> > If I wanted to get a file that is listed in contents-i386.gz:
> >
> > Example:
> > usr/share/doc/ant/README.Debian devel/ant
> >
> > How would I do it?
> > Where would I get it from?
> >
> > 1 Get it from http://packages.debian.org/stable/devel/ant ?
> > 1b. What is the package name for stable that corresponds to devel/ant =
> > ant***.deb?
> > wget http://packages.debian.org/stable/devel/ant**????.deb
>
> ----8<----------------------------------------------------------------
> devel:/# apt-cache policy ant
> ant:
> Installed: (none)
> Candidate: 1.6.5-5
> Version table:
> 1.6.5-5 0
> 1000 ftp://ftp.debian.org sid/main Packages
> devel:/# wget ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/ant/ant_1.6.5-5_i386.deb
> ----8<----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> And then use "mc" to extract it without installing

You may save few typing by using dget instead of wget Smile

Osamu

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Yuri Kozlov · External Since: Aug 16, 2006 Posts: 16

2007/8/1, Michelle Konzack <linux4michelle.TakeThisOut@freenet.de>:
> 1000 ftp://ftp.debian.org sid/main Packages
> devel:/# wget ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/ant/ant_1.6.5-5_i386.deb
> ----8<----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> And then use "mc" to extract it without installing
>
dpkg-deb -x ant_1.6.5-5_i386.deb is more simpler Smile

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Osamu Aoki · External Since: Nov 10, 2004 Posts: 409

On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 01:57:26PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> Am 2007-08-01 22:15:25, schrieb Osamu Aoki:
> > You may save few typing by using dget instead of wget Smile

> >
> > Osamu
> ------------------------- END OF REPLIED MESSAGE -------------------------
>
> I know, but even "dget" is nothing agains my "tddebfileget". Smile

>
> Using xdialog to select a file and then you will be asked comfortable
> which version of package (releases must be configured before) and then
> it download and extract it automaticaly...
>
> Oh, I love the BaSH and Xdialog... coding tonns of GUI tools...

Where is this tddebfileget? Did you try porting to zenity instead of
xdialog?

Did I miss something here?

Osamu

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Osamu Aoki · External Since: Nov 10, 2004 Posts: 409

On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 09:14:28PM +0400, Yuri Kozlov wrote:
> 2007/8/1, Michelle Konzack <linux4michelle.DeleteThis@freenet.de>:
> > 1000 ftp://ftp.debian.org sid/main Packages
> > devel:/# wget ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/ant/ant_1.6.5-5_i386.deb
> > ----8<----------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > And then use "mc" to extract it without installing
> >
> dpkg-deb -x ant_1.6.5-5_i386.deb is more simpler Smile

Hmmm... simpler in terms of process runing but as far as I am
concerned, mc is simpler since once it is started, you just have to type
return on the file name of the package displayed.

mc runs dpkg-deb ...

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