install-docs is a tool allow Debian package maintainers to register
documentation to various documentation systems. It currently supports
dhelp, dwww, doc-central, and scrollkeeper 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.
Set the root directory to dir instead of `/'. Useful and valid only with
the --check action.
-h, --help
Show a short help message.
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'), 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).
-ifile [file ...], --installfile [file ...]
Install the documentation described by the control file file.
-rfile [file ...], --removefile [file ...]
Remove the documentation identified by the control file
file.
-cfile [file ...], --checkfile [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.
-sdocid [docid ...], --statusdocid [docid ...]
Display the status of the document identifier docid.
-Ldocid [docid ...], --listfilesdocid [docid ...]
Deprecated option. Does nothing.
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,
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>.