[csw-maintainers] /testing spamassassin, bind, dhcp, dnstop

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Peter,

Am 15.02.2010 um 23:05 schrieb Peter Bonivart:
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:20 PM, Sebastian Kayser <skayser at opencsw.org 
> > wrote:
>> AFAIR Solaris nroff can't handle some of the stuff that the ?roff on
>> Linux can handle. What I used to do is to file a request with  
>> upstream
>> to make the man page work on Solaris, format the man page on Linux,  
>> put
>> it into $(docdir)/$(GARNAME) and provide a stub man page which  
>> pointed
>> to this pre-formatted text file (see autossh [1] for an example).  
>> Ugly,
>> but it did the job for a workaround.
>
> The man page is available in roff- and HTML-format here:
> http://dns.measurement-factory.com/tools/dnstop/src/
>
> Do we know which macros are not available in Solaris so we can
> replace/remove them?

There are quite a lot. It usually ends up in rewriting the manpage.
Does it format correctly with
   /opt/csw/bin/gnroff -man <manpage>
? Then you could produce plaintext during package creation and
produce catman without much hassle. Unless, of course, you prefer
to learn ROFF ;-)

> Or can we convert from HTML to man page format in any simple way?

At least I don't know a solution with reasonable results.


Best regards

   -- Dago