[systemd-bugs] [Bug 61753] Man pages not installed

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61753

--- Comment #2 from Matthew Burgess <matthew at linuxfromscratch.org> ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> Actually, pre-built man pages are not shipped.

Really?  There's a bunch of .1, .5, .7, .8 files under man/ in the tarballs :-)

> Manpages are modified based upon configure
> settings... Some are simply skipped, which is not a problem, but some are
> generated:
>   build/man/systemd.directives.xml
>   build/man/systemd.index.xml
>   build/man/systemd.unit.xml
> 
> I guess that what what you request (after adding the shipping of manpages in
> tarball) could be implemented, with only a *few* of the manpages out of
> date. How important is it to install manpages without docbook?

Ah, I didn't realise some were dynamically generated.  This isn't a crucial
feature, more of a 'nice-to-have'.  In the Linux From Scratch book
(http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/systemd/), when building the base LFS
system, we do not have libxml2, libxslt or the docbook-xml/docbook-xsl
infrastructure either.  We could provide a patch/tarball to deliver pre-built
man pages based on the 'configure' options in our instructions.  It'd be nice
if you could ship the non-configure-specific man pages though, to cut down on
the size of such a patch/tarball.

Thanks,

Matt.

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