52850ce704
Followup to #14906, in which a nonexistent option was found in a man page. The xref script was designed to catch that, but I was too lax in my parsing: the option was documented using wrong syntax, and the script didn't catch it. Solution: do not allow *any* unrecognized cruft in the option description lines. And fix all improperly-written entries to conform to the rule: **--option**=*value(s)* Two asterisks around option, which must have two dashes. One asterisk around value(s). This is going to cause headaches for some people adding new options, but I don't think I can fix that: there are many factors that make an unparseable line. Adding 'hint' code would make the script even more complex than it is. I have to assume that our contributors are smart enough to look at surrounding context and figure out the right way to specify options. Signed-off-by: Ed Santiago <santiago@redhat.com> <MH: Fixed cherry-pick conflicts> Signed-off-by: Matthew Heon <matthew.heon@pm.me>
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