On Tue, 26 Mar 2019 06:57:52 -0400 (EDT) "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > how does one establish an alias for an existing man page if it's not > done in the "obvious" way? as an example, currently on my system, > under /usr/share/man/man5, i have these two entries: > > -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 4807 Feb 1 15:19 utmp.5.gz > -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 36 Feb 1 15:19 utmpx.5.gz > > predictably, both of the following generate the same man page: > > $ man 5 utmp > $ man 5 utmpx > > because the smaller of the two files is simply a reference to the > other: > > $ gunzip -c utmpx.5.gz > .so man5/utmp.5 > $ > however, i recently installed the package > "containers-common", which installed (among other things) the single > man page file under /usr/share/man/man5: > > /usr/share/man/man5/containers-storage.conf.5.gz > > with that installed, both of the following commands work fine and > generate the same output: > > $ man 5 containers-storage.conf > $ man 5 storage.conf > > but i see no "shortcut" file in that directory to support the second > form, so i'm assuming there is some other mechanism by which this can > be done, i just don't know what it is. thoughts? I'm not sure, but the expansion of the file containers-storage.conf.5.gz has it defined as .TH "storage.conf" "5" " Container Storage Configuration File" "Dan Walsh" "May 2017" I am guessing that man uses both the definitions and the actual directory listing in combination to determine the presence of a man file. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
