INSTALL-DOCS(8) Debian INSTALL-DOCS(8)
NAME
install-docs - manage online Debian documentation
SYNOPSIS
install-docs [options] -i,--install | -r,--remove | -c,--check file [ file ... ]
install-docs [options] -I,--install-all | -C,--install-changed | -R,--remove-all
install-docs [options] -s,--status docid [ docid ... ]
install-docs [options] --dump-db dbname
install-docs -h,--help | -V,--version
DESCRIPTION
install-docs is a tool allow Debian package maintainers to register
documentation to various documentation systems. It currently supports
dhelp, dwww, dochelp, and doc-central browsers.
This manual page provides a quick synopsis of install-docs usage. Full
documentation can be found in the documentation, including a
description of the control file syntax and grammar.
OPTIONS
-v, --verbose
Operate verbosely.
-d, --debug
Print some debugging information.
--no-update-menus
Inhibit running dwww-build-menu(8), and dhelp_parse(8).
--rootdir dir
Set the root directory to dir instead of `/'. Useful and valid only
with the --check action.
ACTIONS
Below is list of possible actions install-docs could handle. There can
be only one action option passed to install-docs, moreover the action
with its arguments must be the last option passed.
Each file argument should be the full path for the doc-base control
file (i.e. `/usr/share/doc-base/some_file' or
`/etc/doc-base/documents/some_file'), and each docid should be the
document identifier (Document identifiers are set in the `Document'
field of the control file, and usually correspond to the package name.)
If file or docid equals `-' (the minus sign), the list of arguments is
read from the standard input (each file name or document id in separate
line).
-i file [file ...], --install file [file ...]
Install the documentation described by the control file file.
-r file [file ...], --remove file [file ...]
Remove the documentation identified by the control file file.
-c file [file ...], --check file [file ...]
Check the control file file and display number of possible problems
found. Use with --verbose to get the actual locations of errors
and warnings. If --rootdir was also given, its argument will be
prepended to names of the files given if the `Files' and `Index'
fields of the file.
-R, --remove-all
De-register all registered documents.
-I, --install-all
(Re)register all documents from /usr/share/doc-base and
/etc/doc-base/documents.
-C, --install-changed
Compare contents of /usr/share/doc-base and /etc/doc-base/documents
directories with registered documents database and de-register any
files that are missing and (re)register only changed or new files.
-s docid [docid ...], --status docid [docid ...]
Display the status of the document identifier docid.
-L docid [docid ...], --listfiles docid [docid ...]
Deprecated option. Does nothing.
--dump-db dbname
Dumps contents of internal databases, for debugging purposes.
dbname can be either files.db or status.db.
-h, --help
Show a short help message.
-V, --version
Display version information.
COMPATIBILITY ISSUES
The following features were added in version 0.8.4, please make sure to
add proper `Conflicts' or `Depends' lines if you would like to use them
in your package's scripts:
• support for passing more than one argument to the -i and -r
actions,
• reading arguments from the standard input,
• -I,--install-all, -R, ---remove-all, -c, --check actions,
• -d, --debug, -h, --help options.
The -C, --install-changed, --dump-db, -V, --version options were added
in 0.8.12.
FILES
/usr/share/doc-base/
The location of doc-base control files provided by various
packages.
/etc/doc-base/documents/
The location of doc-base control files provided by local
administrator.
/var/lib/doc-base/info/documents/
The location of registered control files.
/var/lib/doc-base/info/status.db
Statuses of registered documents.
/var/lib/doc-base/info/files.db
Timestamps and documents ids of registered doc-base files.
BUGS
See <http://bugs.debian.org/doc-base>.
SEE ALSO
dhelp(1), doccentral(1), dochelp(1), dwww(7), Debian doc-base Manual
/usr/share/doc/doc-base/doc-base.html/index.html
AUTHOR
This program was originally written by Christian Schwarz
<schwarz@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system, and the next
maintainer was Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>. Robert Luberda
<robert@debian.org> is currently maintaining and extending it.
This software was meant to be for the benefit of the entire Debian user
and developer community. If you are interested in being involved with
this software, please join the mailing list
<debian-doc@lists.debian.org>.
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