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New functionality in hack/man-page-checker: start cross- referencing the man page 'Synopsis' line against the output of 'podman foo --help'. This is part 1, flag/option consistency. Part 2 (arg consistency) is too big and will have to wait for later. flag/option consistency means: if 'podman foo --help' includes the string '[flags]' in the Usage message, make sure the man page includes '[*options*]' in its Synopsis line, and vice-versa. This found several inconsistencies, which I've fixed. While doing this I realized that Cobra automatically includes a 'Flags:' subsection in its --help output for all subcommands that have defined flags. This is great - it lets us cross-check against the usage synopsis, and make sure that '[flags]' is present or absent as needed, without fear of human screwups. If a flag-less subcommand ever gets extended with flags, but the developer forgets to add '[flags]' and remove DisableFlagsInUseLine, we now have a test that will catch that. (This, too, caught two instances which I fixed). I don't actually know if the new man-page-checker functionality will work in CI: I vaguely recall that it might run before 'make podman' does; and also vaguely recall that some steps were taken to remedy that. 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 |
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. See the Cirrus-CI tasks documentation for details regarding this situation.