351196 – Ship eclass-to-manpage as a standalone tool.

Bug 351196 - Ship eclass-to-manpage as a standalone tool.

Summary: Ship eclass-to-manpage as a standalone tool.

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Portage Tools Team

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Reported:	2011-01-09 11:27 UTC by Kent Fredric (IRC: kent\n) (RETIRED)
Modified:	2022-10-17 23:43 UTC (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

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Description Kent Fredric (IRC: kent\n) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-01-09 11:27:24 UTC

I was just poking around and thought I'd update some eclass docs for perl-experimental, ( bug #259815 ).

It would be awfully nice if there was a tool ( ie: a scriptified and /usr/bin/ ifised  eclass-to-manpage.awk  from app-portage/eclass-manpages ) that made working out what the results of your edits had done. 

ie: error checking your eclasses, viewing how they look when manified, etc.

man-eclass ./perl-module.class # giving me a manpage viewer would be nice for example

man-eclass --check-only ./perl-module.eclass # give me some errors. 

and then app-portage/eclass-manpages can depend on whatever that tool is instead of this magical script that hides in $FILES .  =)


man-eclass -o perl-module.class.1 ./perl-module.eclass # generating a man page output

These are all just examples of things I'd like to see, but use your own discretion =)

Comment 1 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2021-01-03 20:08:49 UTC

app-doc/eclass-manpages installs the tool as /usr/bin/eclass-to-manpage.awk which I guess is what was requested here?