diff --git a/man-pages-3.11.Announce b/man-pages-3.11.Announce new file mode 100644 index 000000000..671e464b4 --- /dev/null +++ b/man-pages-3.11.Announce @@ -0,0 +1,62 @@ +RELEASE +The Linux man page maintainer proudly announces. . . + + man-pages-3.10.tar.gz - man pages for Linux + +Differences from the previous manual pages release are listed in +the file "Changes". + +For further information, visit http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ + +POSIX PAGES +This package used to contains a copy of the POSIX 1003.1-2003 +man pages. The POSIX pages are now distributed in the separate +man-pages-posix package. + +THE PAGES +These pages are most of the section 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 man pages +for Linux. A few pages are provided in sections 1 and 8 for commands +that are not documented in other packages, and there are a few pages +in sections 5 and 8 for the timezone utilities. + +[The timezone pages were taken from +ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzcode2001a.tar.gz.] +[The section 3 man pages for the db routines have been taken from +ftp://ftp.terra.net/pub/sleepycat/db.1.86.tar.gz.] +[The rpc man pages were taken from the 4.4BSD-Lite CDROM.] + +Here is a breakdown of what this distribution contains: + + Section 1 = user commands (intro, plus a few other pages) + Section 2 = system calls + Section 3 = libc calls + Section 4 = devices (e.g., hd, sd) + Section 5 = file formats and protocols (e.g., wtmp, /etc/passwd, nfs) + Section 6 = games (intro only) + Section 7 = overviews, conventions, macro packages, etc. + Section 8 = system administration (intro, plus a few other pages) + + This package contains no, or very few, section 1, 6, and 8 man pages + because these should be distributed with the binaries they are written + for. Sometimes Section 9 is used for man pages describing parts of + the kernel. + + Note that only Section 2 is rather complete, but Section 3 contains + several hundred man pages. If you want to write some man pages, + or suggest improvments to existing pages, please visit + http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ . + + +Copyright information: + + These man pages are distributed under a variety of copyright licenses. + Although these licenses permit free distribution of the nroff sources + contained in this package, commercial distribution may impose other + requirements (e.g., acknowledgement of copyright or inclusion of the + raw nroff sources with the commercial distribution). + If you distribute these man pages commercially, it is your + responsibility to figure out your obligations. (For many man pages, + these obligations require you to distribute nroff sources with any + pre-formatted man pages that you provide.) Each file that contains + nroff source for a man page also contains the author(s) name, email + address, and copyright notice. diff --git a/man-pages-3.11.lsm b/man-pages-3.11.lsm new file mode 100644 index 000000000..1a4e52367 --- /dev/null +++ b/man-pages-3.11.lsm @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +Begin3 +Title: Section 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7 man pages for Linux +Version: 3.10 +Entered-date: 2008-09-23 +Description: Linux manual pages +Keywords: man pages +Author: several +Maintained-by: Michael Kerrisk +Primary-site: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages + 1446k man-pages-3.10.tar.gz +Alternate-site: ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/linux-local/manpages +Copying-policy: several; the pages are all freely distributable as long as + nroff source is provided +End