NAME

dbman_import.pl - import manual pages into the dbman database.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Mark Veltzer; All rights reserved.

LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.

DETAILS

MANIFEST: dbman_import.pl
PROJECT: meta
VERSION: 0.06

SYNOPSIS

dbman_import.pl [options]

DESCRIPTION

This program imports the on-disk manual pages specified by a search path and puts them into the dbman RDBMS.

OPTIONS

help (type: bool, default: 0)

display help message

pod (type: bool, default: 0)

display pod options snipplet

man (type: bool, default: 0)

display manual page

quit (type: bool, default: 0)

quit without doing anything

gtk (type: bool, default: 0)

run a gtk ui to get the parameters

license (type: bool, default: 0)

show license and exit

show copyright and exit

history (type: bool, default: 0)

show history and exit

sections (type: bool, default: 1)

import sections ?

pages (type: bool, default: 1)

import pages ?

demo (type: bool, default: 0)

fake it ?

import_description (type: bool, default: 1)

import description ?

import_troff (type: bool, default: 1)

import troff format ?

import_ascii (type: bool, default: 1)

import ascii format ?

import_ps (type: bool, default: 1)

import ps format ?

import_dvi (type: bool, default: 1)

import dvi format ?

import_html (type: bool, default: 1)

import html format ?

no free arguments are allowed

BUGS

None.

AUTHOR

Name: Mark Veltzer
Email: mailto:veltzer@cpan.org
WWW: http://www.veltzer.org
CPAN id: VELTZER

HISTORY

0.00 MV import tests
0.01 MV dbman package creation
0.02 MV more thumbnail issues
0.03 MV website construction
0.04 MV improve the movie db xml
0.05 MV web site automation
0.06 MV SEE ALSO section fix

SEE ALSO

Compress::Zlib(3), Meta::Projects::Dbman::Page(3), Meta::Projects::Dbman::Section(3), Meta::Tool::Groff(3), Meta::Utils::File::File(3), Meta::Utils::File::Iter(3), Meta::Utils::Opts::Opts(3), Meta::Utils::Output(3), Meta::Utils::Progress(3), Meta::Utils::System(3), strict(3)

TODO

-use time stamps and inodes in the database to determine if things need to be updated.

-take care of all the warnings that come out when doing a full import.

-make the list of directories to be scanned be read from an option file.

-make the db user and password and connection info also be read from a configuration file.

-do the ps,dvi and html importing.