About the directory structure for storing man/info files (SoC work)
Jeff Sheltren
sheltren at cs.ucsb.edu
Wed Jul 18 10:54:38 UTC 2007
On Jul 17, 2007, at 2:01 PM, ria das wrote:
>
> Now the question is how to handle the updates ? If we follow this
> directory structure, then a new update will overwrite the previous
> file and they will be same across all releases (mostly) . One thing
> can be done is to only update rawhide based files. All other releases
> will have release time man/info files. So, when people will check the
> diffs between two releases they will get it.
> And the main manual folder may be in some other place, but will be
> available under webserver .
> Please suggest me on this.
>
> Ria Das
>
Personally, I feel that it would only be relevant to keep the latest
version of a man file for any given release. I don't see a problem
with overwriting a man file if a newer one is included in a package
update.
-Jeff
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