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authorDaniel Friesel <derf@derf.homelinux.org>2009-09-09 20:31:56 +0200
committerDaniel Friesel <derf@derf.homelinux.org>2009-09-09 20:31:56 +0200
commit2b8922a8dc13a590b87fff9e2d7f48dd114ae896 (patch)
treeb862ff08e9e66a851e5604a88362b86b771faf76 /man
parent26ca610f53b07d8cf2acdc6dd93b17af175419fb (diff)
caretaker(7): Updated man/ documentation
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
-rw-r--r--man/7/caretaker.pod10
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/man/7/caretaker.pod b/man/7/caretaker.pod
index 4601ff6..b7f3023 100644
--- a/man/7/caretaker.pod
+++ b/man/7/caretaker.pod
@@ -110,9 +110,11 @@ Scripts used by the package that don't belong into B<bin/>. Not treated speciall
=item man/
-Manual files in POD format, separated by section (like man/7/caretaker.pod).
-To be prepared for possible future support of other manual formats, it is
-recommended to postfix each file with .pod
+Manual files, separated by section (like man/7/caretaker.pod).
+Files with valid POD will be processed with pod2man, all other files which do
+not have a .pod suffix are assumed to be *roff source and directly put into
+the manual directory (with a symlink).
+See also L</"COLLECTED PACKAGE FILES">.
=item provides/
@@ -242,7 +244,7 @@ These files reside in F<$PKG_DIR/.collected> (subject to change).
The directory is somewhat similar to F<~/bin> - it is automatically populated
by caretaker. However, this one does not contain symlinks.
-Currently, it only contains the directory F<man/>, which holds the "compiled"
+Currently, it contains only the directory F<man/>, which holds the
manual pages from the packages (extracted from F<bin/> and F<man/>).
This way, you can put F<.../.collected/man> into you MANPATH to access manuals
provided by packages.