b0601cb34a
Somewhere in the CIv2 migration we lost the man page vs --help
cross-checker. Add it back, by adding it into the man-page-check
Makefile target; this is part of 'make validate', which is run
in CI even on CI:DOCS PRs.
As happens when CI doesn't run, things broke. Man pages got out
of sync with --help. This PR:
1) Fixes hack/xref-helpmsgs-manpages to deal with the new
"Options" (instead of "Flags") form of podman help. #8034
did part of that, but one of my review comments was
accidentally left out.
2) Fixes hack/xref-helpmsgs-manpages to deal with the new
option syntax in man pages, post- #8292, in which each
option is preceded by four hashes so as to make them
HTML <h4> elements with named anchors.
3) Fixes man pages that #8292 accidentally missed.
4) Adds man page entries for two flags that got added
to podman but not documented (pod create --network-alias,
play kube --log-driver)
Fixes: #8296
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:
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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 accessable for some other reason.