Up-to-date online manual pages

Up-to-date online manual pages

[Geoffrey Thomas]

Hi folks,

I've noticed that the online manual pages on https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/index.html don't seem to be up-to-date with the latest release of man-pages. They seem to be pre-6.0. Is there another site that has them online (other than downstreams like Linux distros that host their own man pages)? Or is there some way I can help with getting them updated?

Thanks,
-- 
Geoffrey Thomas
geofft@ldpreload.com

Re: Up-to-date online manual pages

[Sam James]

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> On 9 Jan 2023, at 23:52, Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@ldpreload.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> I've noticed that the online manual pages on https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/index.html don't seem to be up-to-date with the latest release of man-pages. They seem to be pre-6.0. Is there another site that has them online (other than downstreams like Linux distros that host their own man pages)? Or is there some way I can help with getting them updated?
> 

This really reminds me that we need to figure out such a solution for Gentoo. I'm often quite envious of Arch's viewer & rendering of all theirs.

I'm not aware of an up to date copy of man-pages on the web. IIRC, Michael Kerrisk has stepped down from maintaining
man-pages as he's busy, so a redirect may be needed if access to that site can't be given to Alex :(

thanks,
sam

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Re: Up-to-date online manual pages

[Alejandro Colomar]

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Hi Sam,

On 1/10/23 09:19, Sam James wrote:
> 
> 
>> On 9 Jan 2023, at 23:52, Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@ldpreload.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I've noticed that the online manual pages on https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/index.html don't seem to be up-to-date with the latest release of man-pages. They seem to be pre-6.0. Is there another site that has them online (other than downstreams like Linux distros that host their own man pages)? Or is there some way I can help with getting them updated?
>>
> 
> This really reminds me that we need to figure out such a solution for Gentoo. I'm often quite envious of Arch's viewer & rendering of all theirs.

Yes, that one is nice (it has some formatting issues in the examples 
(whitespace; check here: 
<https://man.archlinux.org/man/core/man-pages/_Generic.3.en>), but it's rather 
nice apart from that.

> 
> I'm not aware of an up to date copy of man-pages on the web. IIRC, Michael Kerrisk has stepped down from maintaining
> man-pages as he's busy, so a redirect may be needed if access to that site can't be given to Alex :(

man7.org is Michael's property.  The best thing to do is get him to maintain it. 
  Other than that, I don't think the effort is worth it to open a clone of it; 
distros like Debian or Arch already have it.  Maybe for gentoo it's worth it, 
though.

Cheers,

Alex

> 
> thanks,
> sam

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