<quote who="Stuart Ellis"> > > On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 12:56:58 -0000 (GMT), "Gavin Henry" > <ghenry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said: >> Dear all, >> >> Has there been any discussion about this? >> >> I thinking along the lines of htdig/swish-e that indexes all man >> pages/howto/README after every rpm is installed. >> >> Something like a post entry in the spec file, or similar. > > I haven't seen any on this list, but essentially this is a function of > having a desktop search/indexing engine since there isn't a common > format to this stuff. The next release of yelp (GNOME help browser) > will display info and man pages, but can't index the random txt, html, > pdf etc. that goes into /usr/share/doc/. We heavily use Swish-e (www.swish-e.org) for the fileservers we install. This can handle html, xhtml, txt, pdf and the like. Maybe something like this or a updatedocdb crontab, like slocate has and we just put the standard doc pathnames in a config file. The customize the web search page. > > As a non-technical workaround I wrote a Docbook section for the > Installation Guide explaining how to find the various sets of > documentation in Fedora, which is currently in my offcuts folder. It's > a bad situation for new users at the moment... > -- > > Stuart Ellis > s.ellis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > -- > > fedora-docs-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-docs-list >
