Unison seems to have no documentation?

cfr · 2013-07-27 00:06:03

According to unison -help,

unison -doc topics

should list the available documentation topics. However, it doesn't seem to have any:

$ unison -doc topics
Documentation topics:

Type "unison -doc <topic>" for detailed information about <topic>
or "unison -doc all" for the whole manual

In fact, there seems to be no manual at all:

$ unison -doc all

$

I'm not familiar with unison (which is why I wanted to look at the documentation) but I can't see anything obvious in the abs pkgbuild to indicate either that documentation should or shouldn't be generated. Looking at the package section, no documentation seems to be included unless it is built into the binary which I guess it might be seeing how it is meant to be accessed through the binary itself.

I can't see anything on the wiki page (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Unison) to suggest that the documentation should be installed separately or accessed differently in Arch. On the other hand, that wiki page is not very accurate (or it is not current) since you do not need a profile before you can use unison.

Last edited by cfr (2013-07-27 00:06:43)

HalosGhost · 2013-07-27 00:31:43

unison-doc is still in the AUR though. Have you tried installing it?

All the best,

-HG

firecat53 · 2013-07-27 00:35:56

Unison-doc is in the AUR for offline, or there is a PDF on the unison download site or just the html docs on the website.

Scott

Edit: too slow! Posting from my phone :-)

Last edited by firecat53 (2013-07-27 00:38:11)

cfr · 2013-07-27 00:41:36

Thanks. I didn't think to look in AUR just because I got the main package from Extra. However, although that does install documentation in /usr/share/doc, it still isn't available via unison itself i.e. I still get the same output I posted above, even for unison -doc all which is just supposed to show the whole manual.

EDIT: In case I wasn't clear, basically, the AUR package just gives me the same docs I can get from unison's website. I can't do unison -doc topics to get a list of topics or unison -doc <topic> to see details about something.

Last edited by cfr (2013-07-27 00:44:19)

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#1 2013-07-27 00:06:03

Unison seems to have no documentation?

#2 2013-07-27 00:31:43

Re: Unison seems to have no documentation?

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Re: Unison seems to have no documentation?

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Re: Unison seems to have no documentation?

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