Re: Formatted man pages

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Vince Vielhaber <vev(at)michvhf(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-documentation <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Formatted man pages
Date: 2002-02-22 14:41:07
Message-ID: 16584.1014388867@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> thought the postgresql-7.2.tar.gz had everything, including HTML. At
> least I think it should.

Certainly, and it does.

> So, it has the man pages and HTML files? OK, I see now, the man pages
> are in the base tarball postgresql-base-7.2.tar.gz, so they don't need
> to be in the doc tarball. Now, I really do get it.

I thought the item under discussion was which split-tarball file should
contain the prebuilt doc files. To me, putting 'em in -docs makes much
more sense than putting them in -base, for both HTML and man-page files.
So I think your complaint was legit, if poorly worded.

regards, tom lane

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