On 2020-06-26 13:43, Marc Espie wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 12:20:35PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote:
>> Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-usenet2012@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Unless I've got it all wrong, <https://man.openbsd.org/> will only
>>> display man pages for programs and commands in base. Is there a way to
>>> display the man page for a package/port I haven't installed and/or
>>> downloaded yet? (This assumes I haven't downloaded the ports cvs
>>> tree).
>> Doing that would be very annoying and painful, and very few people
>> would want it. It would also substantially degrade the clarity at
>> man.openbsd.org
> Actually, it ought to be feasible to have the same mechanism in place for
> base as a third party mechanism.
>
> I don't think it would be that difficult to setup, this obviously ought to
> be separate from the main OpenBSD installation, as the quality of manpages
> from ports is often not up-to-par compared to base.
>
> Both Ingo and naddy and I, we've been routinely passing all manpages from
> all packages through groff and mandoc and makewhatis to the point that
> over 99% of them would be clean for a usage similar to man.openbsd.org
>
FreeBSD appears to offer manual pages from ports on their man page
website: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi
Not advocating for anything, just thought I'd point it out.
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