Hello all,
As mentioned previously, here is a series converting the existing xml
based documentation to scdoc.
Despite the size of this series, one should be able to review nearly all
of it during their first morning coffee ;-)
I've went ahead with scdoc instead of other solutions since it's a
simple 1K LoC, C99 program with trivial markdown-like syntax. Which is
practically available for any distro [1].
A quick search in Arch shows that over 50 packages/projects use scdoc.
This series:
- patch 1 - simple comparison script of man page _output_ (the roff
files themselves vary significantly) - DO NOT MERGE
- patch 2 - the scdoc files themselves, including typos to make diff vs
original smaller
- patch 3 - wires scdoc to the build and removes the old xml files
- patch 4-9 - trivial fixes as white space, punctuation, etc
- patch 10-18 - expand documentation around {depmod,modprobe}.d handling
- patch 19 - remove "maintained by" references
- patch 20 - list short and long options on separate lines
The last two might be little controversial, so feel free to drop them.
NOTE: Some patches have respective question or two within.
As always - comments and suggestions are greatly appreciated.
[1] https://repology.org/project/scdoc/versions
[2] https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/scdoc/
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Emil Velikov (20):
man: add script to generate/compare the xslt vs upcoming scdoc
man: add scdoc based man pages
man: build the scdoc based man pages
man: remove no longer used XML files
man: add some extra bold/italic annotations
man: white space fixes
man: misc punctuation fixes
man: some options take an argument, mention that
man: couple of grammar/language fixes
man: stop removing DISTCONFDIR lines
man: depmod.d: document the config file order handling
man: depmod.d: factor out a CONFIGURATION FORMAT section
man: depmod.d: rework the opening description sentence
man: depmod: remove hard-coded /etc/depmod.d references
man: modprobe.d: document the config file order handling
man: modprobe.d: factor out a CONFIGURATION FORMAT section
man: modprobe.d: mention about MODPROBE_OPTIONS
man: modprobe: remove hard-coded /etc/modprobe.d references
man: remove the "Maintained by" references
man: list options one per line
configure.ac | 2 +-
man/Makefile.am | 30 +--
man/compare.sh | 63 ++++++
man/depmod.8.scd | 139 +++++++++++++
man/depmod.8.xml | 343 -------------------------------
man/depmod.d.5.scd | 115 +++++++++++
man/depmod.d.5.xml | 164 ---------------
man/insmod.8.scd | 35 ++++
man/insmod.8.xml | 87 --------
man/kmod.8.scd | 49 +++++
man/kmod.8.xml | 120 -----------
man/lsmod.8.scd | 29 +++
man/lsmod.8.xml | 73 -------
man/modinfo.8.scd | 84 ++++++++
man/modinfo.8.xml | 201 -------------------
man/modprobe.8.scd | 232 +++++++++++++++++++++
man/modprobe.8.xml | 544 --------------------------------------------------
man/modprobe.d.5.scd | 187 +++++++++++++++++
man/modprobe.d.5.xml | 265 ------------------------
man/modules.dep.5.scd | 43 ++++
man/modules.dep.5.xml | 80 --------
man/modules.dep.bin.5 | 1 +
man/rmmod.8.scd | 53 +++++
man/rmmod.8.xml | 148 --------------
24 files changed, 1041 insertions(+), 2046 deletions(-)
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base-commit: 8837461494761d58be579641f20cc043274adddf
change-id: 20240523-man-743d6e51eb6f
Best regards,
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Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@xxxxxxxxx>
