Some more "about manned.org" text

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Yorhel 2012-07-05 10:21:06 +02:00
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@ -54,12 +54,18 @@ sub home {
my $self = shift;
$self->htmlHeader(title => 'Man Pages Archive');
h1 'Man Pages Archive';
p style => 'float: none';
# Relevant query: SELECT count(distinct hash), count(distinct name), count(*), count(distinct package) FROM man;
# It's far too slow to run that on every pageview. :-(
lit 'Indexing <b>519,202</b> versions of <b>127,527</b> manual pages found in <b>1,663,033</b> files of <b>176,474</b> packages.';
br;
txt 'At this point only Arch Linux, Ubuntu and some versions of Debian have been indexed. More systems and repositories will be added later on.';
p style => 'float: none'; lit <<' _';
Indexing <b>519,202</b> versions of <b>127,527</b> manual pages found in
<b>1,663,033</b> files of <b>176,474</b> packages.
<br />
Manned.org aims to index all manual pages from a variety of systems, both
old and new, and provides a convenient interface for looking up and viewing
the various versions of each man page. This site is still in its early life,
so we're actively adding new systems to the database and finding ways to
improve the online interface. <a href="/info/about">About manned.org &raquo;</a>
_
end;
h2 'Browse the manuals';
@ -118,7 +124,10 @@ sub about {
Manned.org was created in order to improve this situation. This site aims to
index the manual pages from a variaty of systems, both old and new, and
allows you to browse through the various versions of a manual page to find
out how each system behaves.
out how each system behaves. The manuals are stored in the database as
UTF-8, and are passed through <a
href="http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/">groff</a> to render them in
(mostly) the same way as they are displayed in your terminal.
_
end;
@ -130,14 +139,14 @@ sub about {
<dl>
<dt>Arch Linux</dt><dd>
The core, extra and community repositories are fetched from a local
Arch mirror.</dd>
Arch mirror. Indexing started around begin June 2012.</dd>
<dt>Ubuntu</dt><dd>
Historical releases were fetched from <a
href="http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/">http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/</a>,
supported releases from a local mirror. All components (main, universe,
restricted and multiverse) from the $release, $release-updates and
$release-security repositories are indexed. Backports are not included at
the moment.</dd>
the moment. Indexing started around mid June 2012.</dd>
<dt>Debian</dt><dd>
Historical releases were fetched from <a
href="http://archive.debian.org/debian/">http://archive.debian.org/debian/</a>.