I plan to begin working towards this to package GNU Manuals. But, I wish to ask, where should I collect these manuals from? They aren't at a centralized place, I guess? So I should look for them one-by-one through the FSF Directory?

And Guix users/devs, is there a way to figure our whether a GNU Manual is already packaged with its parent package (of which it is a manual) or not?


I plan to first port them to my Guix channel [0] and then send patches upstream.

[0]: https://codeberg.org/divyaranjan/divya-lambda

Regards,

On 18 December 2024 01:20:58 GMT, Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Cayetano Santos <csantosb@inventati.org> writes:
>
>>>dim. 15 déc. 2024 at 22:34, Jeremy Bryant <jb@jeremybryant.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Following a discussion on emacs-devel, several people suggested that
>>> GNU Guix may be a a good way to contemplate this distribution mechanism,
>>> for obvious GNU-related reasons.
>>
>> Remember you always have the possibility to create a dedicated guix
>> channel, external but complementary to guix upstream itself, to
>> distribute manuals. This would about any additional overload on guix
>> maintenance tasks.
>
>Well, the topic being GNU manuals, they'd be more than at home in GNU
>Guix.  Typically though they come with the packages themselves, such as
>'libc.info.gz' which is shipped with glibc.
>
>I think Guix would be a fine place to have them packaged and made
>available.  We already have the C manual you mentioned; it's a great
>read!  You can read it with
>
>--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>$ guix shell info-reader c-intro-and-ref -- info c'
>--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
>More info on this package:
>
>--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>$ guix show c-intro-and-ref
>name: c-intro-and-ref
>version: 0.0.0-1.47e5a23
>outputs:
>+ out: tout
>systems: x86_64-linux i686-linux
>dependencies: texinfo@6.8
>location: gnu/packages/c.scm:83:4
>homepage: https://www.gnu.org/
>license: FDL 1.3+
>synopsis: GNU C Language Intro and Reference  
>description: This manual explains the C language for use with the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) on the
>+ GNU/Linux system and other systems.  We refer to this dialect as GNU C.  If you already know C, you can use
>+ this as a reference manual.
>--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
>-- 
>Thanks,
>Maxim
>

Divya Ranjan, Mathematics, Philosophy and Libre Software