Finding man files: CVS or RPM repositories?

[ria das]

On 7/2/07, Ville-Pekka Vainio <vpivaini at cs.helsinki.fi> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> (CC'd to docs-list)
>
> My summer project[1] is at a stage where I need to think about finding all of
> the man pages in a Fedora release. I have basic CVS integration working so
> that the user can specify a package and a branch and it imports the man pages
> from that package to the wiki (by downloading the source tarball). You can
> read more about the status of my project from my newest weekly report[2].
>
> But what do you think is the best way of finding all of the man pages in a
> release?
>
> - Do a "cvs -co", parse it, download every source package and search for man
> files?
>
> - Or download filelists.xml from a repository mirror, parse it to find every
> package that contains man pages, then download the RPMs and extract the man
> pages from them?
>
> - Any other ideas?
I am extracting the man pages from the RPM files.

>
> And in any case, how to handle package updates?
May be a small script to extract the man page from the latest RPM.

Ria