From 2b8922a8dc13a590b87fff9e2d7f48dd114ae896 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Friesel Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 20:31:56 +0200 Subject: caretaker(7): Updated man/ documentation --- man/7/caretaker.pod | 10 ++++++---- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'man') 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. 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. =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, which holds the "compiled" +Currently, it contains only the directory F, which holds the manual pages from the packages (extracted from F and F). This way, you can put F<.../.collected/man> into you MANPATH to access manuals provided by packages. -- cgit v1.2.3