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[PATCH] packages: Add man-pages-posix.

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From: Lilah Tascheter <lilah <at> lunabee.space>
To: Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be>, 57347 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Lilah Tascheter <lilah <at> lunabee.space>
Subject: [bug#57347] [PATCH v2 1/2] packages: Add man-pages-posix.
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2022 18:37:54 -0500

* gnu/packages/man.scm (man-pages-posix): New variable.
---
 gnu/packages/man.scm | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/man.scm b/gnu/packages/man.scm
index 1c1d82758b..a3c6bb6aa4 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/man.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/man.scm
@@ -302,6 +302,38 @@ (define-public man-pages
     ;; Each man page has its own license; some are GPLv2+, some are MIT/X11.
     (license license:gpl2+)))
 
+(define-public man-pages-posix
+  (package
+    (name "man-pages-posix")
+    (version "2013-a")
+    (source
+      (origin
+        (method url-fetch)
+        (uri (string-append "mirror://kernel.org/linux/docs/man-pages/"
+                            "man-pages-posix/man-pages-posix-" version
+                            ".tar.xz"))
+        (sha256
+         (base32 "0258j05zdrxpgdj8nndbyi7bvrs8fxdksb0xbfrylzgzfmf3lqqr"))))
+    (build-system gnu-build-system)
+    (arguments
+      `(#:tests? #f
+        ;; The compress-documentation phase doesn't pick up on our manpages as
+        ;; its regex doesn't support trailing letters, so manually compress.
+        #:make-flags ,#~(list (string-append "prefix=" #$output) "gz")
+        #:license-file-regexp "POSIX-COPYRIGHT"
+        #:phases (modify-phases %standard-phases (delete 'configure))))
+    (home-page "https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/")
+    (synopsis "Man pages from the POSIX.1-2013 standard")
+    (description "Excerpts from the POSIX.1-2008 and TC1 standards
+(collectively, POSIX.1-2013) in manual page form. While the Linux man-pages
+project documents the system as it exists on Linux- and glibc-based systems,
+this package documents the portable software API as nominally implemented by
+many unix-likes.")
+    (license (license:fsdg-compatible "file://POSIX-COPYRIGHT"
+               "Redistribution of this material is permitted so long as this
+notice and the corresponding notices within each POSIX manual page are retained
+on any distribution, and the nroff source is included."))))
+
 (define-public help2man
   ;; TODO: Manual pages for languages not available from the implicit
   ;; input "locales" contain the original (English) text.

base-commit: ff3cecffafad0ddf5cc2af6cb676e73bcf58e431
-- 
2.37.2

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