discuss: Thread: man pages

Subject: Re: [discuss] man pages
From: Sam Varshavchik ####@####.####
Date: 28 Sep 2008 16:48:45 +0100
Message-Id: <cone.1222616924.372667.3534.500@commodore.email-scan.com>

jdd for http://tldp.org writes:

> I receive from time to time notice of the update of man pages.
> 
> man pages are one of the LDP referenced documents.
> 
> we have to think if we want to include them in the wiki (not sure it's
> a good idea). I write to the maintainer ####@####.#### to
> know the status

Currently, we just maintain archived copies of core man page tarballs. I 
have a script running that archives them on tldp.org.

I do have a script that converts nroff-formatted man pages to HTML. My 
converted HTML pages include not just the core man page set, but also 
additional man pages from several other sources.

The resulting HTML pages are huge, and the only sane way to manage them is 
by using these kinds of scripts. I do not believe that a Wiki model is a 
good fit for maintaining them.

Besides my HTML pages, there are plenty of other HTML versions of man pages 
on the web, so having another one on tldp.org would not really add value.

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<type 'exceptions.IOError'>

Python 2.5.2: /usr/bin/python
Sun May 19 07:18:22 2024

A problem occurred in a Python script. Here is the sequence of function calls leading up to the error, in the order they occurred.

/opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/<string> in ()

/opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/main.py in main()

424

425 if path is not None:

426 main_path(path)

427 else:

428 main_form()

global main_form = <function main_form at 0x9809c6c>

/opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/main.py in main_form()

378 except ImportError:

379 die(ctxt, "Invalid command")

380 module.do(ctxt)

381

382 def main():

module = <module 'commands.showthread' from '/opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/commands/showthread.pyc'>, module.do = <function do at 0x986abfc>, global ctxt = {'row': 0, 'cmd': 'showthread', 'charset': 'utf-...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}

/opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/commands/showthread.py in do(ctxt={'row': 0, 'cmd': 'showthread', 'charset': 'utf-...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'})

9 ctxt.update(ezmlm.thread(ctxt[THREADID]))

10 header(ctxt, 'Thread: ' + ctxt[SUBJECT], 'showthread')

11 do_list(ctxt, 'msgs', ctxt[MSGSPERPAGE], ctxt[MESSAGES],

12 lambda:sub_showmsg(ctxt, ctxt[MSGNUM]))

13 footer(ctxt)

global sub_showmsg = <function sub_showmsg at 0x98091ec>, ctxt = {'row': 0, 'cmd': 'showthread', 'charset': 'utf-...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, global MSGNUM = 'msgnum'

/opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/globalfns.py in do_list(ctxt={'row': 0, 'cmd': 'showthread', 'charset': 'utf-...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, name='msgs', perpage=10, values=[{'author': u'Sam Varshavchik', 'authorid': 'efnhgfakkkdlpfbcfkgp', 'date': '28 Sep 2008 16:48:45 +0100', 'month': 200809, 'msgnum': 11253, 'subject': u'Re: man pages', 'threadid': 'jbejllkdkgnmmkmocoid', 'timestamp': 1222616925.0}, {'author': u'jdd for http://tldp.org', 'authorid': 'kmhebagfemoedpejdpbn', 'date': '28 Sep 2008 17:10:59 +0100', 'month': 200809, 'msgnum': 11254, 'subject': u'Re: man pages', 'threadid': 'jbejllkdkgnmmkmocoid', 'timestamp': 1222618259.0}, {'author': u'Sam Varshavchik', 'authorid': 'efnhgfakkkdlpfbcfkgp', 'date': '28 Sep 2008 17:20:04 +0100', 'month': 200809, 'msgnum': 11255, 'subject': u'Re: man pages', 'threadid': 'jbejllkdkgnmmkmocoid', 'timestamp': 1222618804.0}, {'author': u'jdd', 'authorid': 'kmhebagfemoedpejdpbn', 'date': '28 Sep 2008 17:29:58 +0100', 'month': 200809, 'msgnum': 11256, 'subject': u'Re: man pages', 'threadid': 'jbejllkdkgnmmkmocoid', 'timestamp': 1222619398.0}], peritem=<function <lambda> at 0x986ad84>)

128 write(template % ctxt)

129 if peritem:

130 peritem()

131 ctxt[ROW] += 1

132

peritem = <function <lambda> at 0x986ad84>

/opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/commands/showthread.py in ()

9 ctxt.update(ezmlm.thread(ctxt[THREADID]))

10 header(ctxt, 'Thread: ' + ctxt[SUBJECT], 'showthread')

11 do_list(ctxt, 'msgs', ctxt[MSGSPERPAGE], ctxt[MESSAGES],

12 lambda:sub_showmsg(ctxt, ctxt[MSGNUM]))

13 footer(ctxt)

/opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/globalfns.py in sub_showmsg(ctxt={'row': 0, 'cmd': 'showthread', 'charset': 'utf-...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, msgnum=11253)

229 format_timestamp(ctxt, ctxt)

230 write(html('msg-header') % ctxt)

231 rec_showpart(ctxt, msg, 0)

232 write(html('msg-footer') % ctxt)

233 ctxt.pop()

global rec_showpart = <function rec_showpart at 0x98091b4>, ctxt = {'row': 0, 'cmd': 'showthread', 'charset': 'utf-...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, msg = <email.message.Message instance at 0x988b3ec>

/opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/globalfns.py in rec_showpart(ctxt={'row': 0, 'cmd': 'showthread', 'charset': 'utf-...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, part=<email.message.Message instance at 0x988b3ec>, partnum=1)

205 else:

206 for p in part.get_payload():

207 partnum = rec_showpart(ctxt, p, partnum+1)

208 else:

209 write(html('msg-sep') % ctxt)

partnum = 1, global rec_showpart = <function rec_showpart at 0x98091b4>, ctxt = {'row': 0, 'cmd': 'showthread', 'charset': 'utf-...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, p = <email.message.Message instance at 0x988b2ac>

208 else:

209 write(html('msg-sep') % ctxt)

210 sub_showpart(ctxt, part)

211 return partnum

212

global sub_showpart = <function sub_showpart at 0x9809144>, ctxt = {'row': 0, 'cmd': 'showthread', 'charset': 'utf-...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, part = <email.message.Message instance at 0x988b2ac>

/opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/globalfns.py in sub_showpart(ctxt={'row': 0, 'cmd': 'showthread', 'charset': 'utf-...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, part=<email.message.Message instance at 0x988b2ac>)

164 type = ctxt[TYPE] = part.get_content_type()

165 ctxt[FILENAME] = part.get_filename()

166 template = html('msg-' + type.replace('/', '-'))

167 if not template:

168 template = html('msg-' + type[:type.find('/')])

global template = <function template at 0x9801e9c>, global html = <function html at 0x9801ed4>, type = 'application/pgp-signature', type.replace = <built-in method replace of str object at 0x988e6e8>

/opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/globalfns.py in html(name='msg-application-pgp-signature')

40

41 def html(name):

42 return template(name + '.html')

43

44 def xml(name):

global template = <function template at 0x9801e9c>, name = 'msg-application-pgp-signature'

/opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/globalfns.py in template(filename='msg-application-pgp-signature.html')

31 except IOError:

32 if not _template_zipfile:

33 _template_zipfile = zipfile.ZipFile(sys.argv[0])

34 try:

35 f = _template_zipfile.open(n).read()

global _template_zipfile = None, global zipfile = <module 'zipfile' from '/usr/lib/python2.5/zipfile.pyc'>, zipfile.ZipFile = <class zipfile.ZipFile at 0x979aa7c>, global sys = <module 'sys' (built-in)>, sys.argv = ['-c', '/opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20']

/usr/lib/python2.5/zipfile.py in __init__(self=<zipfile.ZipFile instance at 0x980b7ec>, file='-c', mode='r', compression=0, allowZip64=False)

337 self.filename = file

338 modeDict = {'r' : 'rb', 'w': 'wb', 'a' : 'r+b'}

339 self.fp = open(file, modeDict[mode])

340 else:

341 self._filePassed = 1

self = <zipfile.ZipFile instance at 0x980b7ec>, self.fp = None, builtin open = <built-in function open>, file = '-c', modeDict = {'a': 'r+b', 'r': 'rb', 'w': 'wb'}, mode = 'r'

<type 'exceptions.IOError'>: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '-c'
      args = (2, 'No such file or directory')
      errno = 2
      filename = '-c'
      message = ''
      strerror = 'No such file or directory'