#! /bin/bash -e # debman - read a man page from an uninstalled Debian package file (.deb) # Copyright (C) 2003 Colin Watson # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) # any later version. # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software # Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA # 02111-1307, USA. usage () { if [ "$1" -eq 1 ]; then FD=2 else FD=1 fi cat >&$FD < ... Options should be exactly one of: -f package.deb read pages from package.deb archive -p package download .deb for package and read pages from there EOF exit "$1" } ARGS=`getopt -l help,filename:,package: -o hf:p: -n debman -- "$@"` eval set -- "$ARGS" FILENAME= PACKAGE= while :; do case "$1" in -h|--help) usage 0 ;; -f|--filename) FILENAME="$2" shift 2 ;; -p|--package) PACKAGE="$2" shift 2 ;; --) shift break ;; *) echo "debman: Internal error in option parsing" >&2 exit 1 ;; esac done if ( [ -n "$FILENAME" ] && [ -n "$PACKAGE" ] ) || \ ( [ -z "$FILENAME" ] && [ -z "$PACKAGE" ] ); then usage 1 fi if test $# -lt 1; then usage 1 fi # Directory names are duplicated with and without ./ in order to cope with # old .debs whose data.tar.gz components had a slightly different format. MANDIRS='usr/share/man usr/X11R6/man ./usr/share/man ./usr/X11R6/man' TEMPDIR=`mktemp -dt debman.XXXXXXXXXX` trap 'rm -rf "$TEMPDIR"' EXIT ERR HUP INT QUIT TERM if [ -n "$PACKAGE" ]; then (cd "$TEMPDIR" && debget "$PACKAGE") # There should be at most one file in $TEMPDIR now. FILENAME="`find \"$TEMPDIR\" -name \*.deb -print`" if [ -z "$FILENAME" ]; then echo "Failed to fetch package $PACKAGE; exiting." >&2 exit 1 fi fi # Ignore errors from tar (though not dpkg). They'll generally just be of the # form "tar: usr/share/man: Not found in archive". If they're something # else, then man will fail to find the page anyway. dpkg --fsys-tarfile "$FILENAME" | \ (tar -C "$TEMPDIR" -xf - $MANDIRS 2>/dev/null || true) MANPATH="$TEMPDIR/usr/share/man:$TEMPDIR/usr/X11R6/man" man "$@" # vi: expandtab