Source code of manned.org
https://manned.org/
The new format allows for downloading and importing only a part of the database - useful when only the metadata is required - and doesn't include the wasteful preformatted HTML cache. This also ensures that the new import.sql script is actually usable and in sync with the actual database. The old schema.sql was neither. (And this simplifies my backup scripts) |
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| util | ||
| web | ||
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| import.sql | ||
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| README.md | ||
The Manned.org Source Code
This repository holds the source code of Manned.org. For a description of the site, check out https://manned.org/info/about.
Ironically, documentation about how things work is completely lacking.
Requirements
- perl: 5.36+
- postgresql: A somewhat recent version
- rust: Version who-knows-which
Web front-end
- FU
Man page indexer
- curl
- psql
File structure
- indexer/ -> The Rust program that scans package repositories for updates, fetches new packages and extracts the man pages.
- ManUtils/ -> Perl/XS helper module to format man pages into HTML (uses web/).
- util/ -> Cron job and scripts to run indexer/ on the right repositories.
- web/ -> Badly named Rust library to convert man pages into HTML.
- www/ -> The web front-end.