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This one is a nightmare, because --volume has been edited in four different files throughout the years (five if you count podman-build, which I am not including in this PR). Those edits have not always been done in sync. The list of options was reordered 2022-06-28 by Giuseppe in #14734, but only in podman-create and -run (not in podman-pod-*). No explanation of why, but I'll assume he knew what he was doing, and have accepted that for the reference copy. There was also a big edit in #8519. The "Propagation property...bind mounted" sentence first appeared in pod-clone, in #14299 by cdoern, with no obvious source of where it came from. I choose to include it in the reference copy. The "**copy**" option seems to work in pod-create, so I'm including it in the reference copy. Someone please yell loudly if this is not the case. The "disables SELinux separation for containers used in the build", no idea, changed that to just "for the container/pod" The "advanced users / overlay / upperdir / workdir" paragraph makes zero sense to me, but hey, I assume it applies to all the commands, so I put it in the reference copy. Finally, there's still a mishmash of backticks, asterisks, underscores, and even quotation marks. Someone is gonna have to perform major cleanup on this one day, but at least it'll be in only one place. Signed-off-by: Ed Santiago <santiago@redhat.com>
Podman Documentation
The online man pages and other documents regarding Podman can be found at Read The Docs. The man pages can be found under the Commands link on that page.
Build the Docs
Directory Structure
| Directory | |
|---|---|
| Markdown source for man pages | docs/source/markdown/ |
| man pages aliases as .so files | docs/source/markdown/links/ |
| restructured text for readthedocs.io | docs/rst/ |
| target for output | docs/build |
| man pages | docs/build/man |
| remote linux man pages | docs/build/remote/linux |
| remote darwin man pages | docs/build/remote/darwin |
| remote windows html pages | docs/build/remote/windows |
Support files
| docs/remote-docs.sh | Read the docs/source/markdown files and format for each platform |
| docs/links-to-html.lua | pandoc filter to do aliases for html files |
| docs/use-pagetitle.lua | pandoc filter to set html document title |
Manpage Syntax
The syntax for the formatting of all man pages can be found here.
API Reference
The latest online documentation is
automatically generated by two cooperating automation systems based on committed upstream
source code. Firstly, the Cirrus-CI docs task builds
pkg/api/swagger.yaml and uploads it to a public-facing location (Google Storage Bucket -
an online service for storing unstructured data). Second, Read The Docs
reacts to the github.com repository change, building the content for the libpod documentation
site. This site includes for the API section,
some javascript which consumes the uploaded swagger.yaml file directly from the Google
Storage Bucket.
Since there are multiple systems and local cache is involved, it's possible that updates to documentation (especially the swagger/API docs) will lag by 10-or-so minutes. However, because the client (i.e. your web browser) is fetching content from multiple locations that do not share a common domain, accessing the API section may show a stack-trace similar to the following:
If reloading the page, or clearing your local cache does not fix the problem, it is
likely caused by broken metadata needed to protect clients from cross-site-scripting
style attacks. Please notify a maintainer
so they may investigate how/why the swagger.yaml file's CORS-metadata is
incorrect, or the file isn't accessible for some other reason.
Local Testing
Assuming that you have the dependencies installed, then also install (showing Fedora in the example):
# dnf install python3-sphinx python3-recommonmark
# pip install sphinx-markdown-tables
After that completes, cd to the docs directory in your Podman sandbox and then do make html.
You can then preview the html files in docs/build/html with:
python -m http.server 8000 --directory build/html