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diff --git a/docs/README.md b/docs/README.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..83f5c79a3 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,70 @@ +# Podman Documentation + +The online man pages and other documents regarding Podman can be found at +[Read The Docs](https://podman.readthedocs.io). The man pages +can be found under the [Commands](https://podman.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Commands.html) +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](http://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html) is +automatically generated by two cooperating automation systems based on committed upstream +source code. Firstly, [the Cirrus-CI docs task](../contrib/cirrus/README.md#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](readthedocs.com) +reacts to the github.com repository change, building the content for the [libpod documentation +site](https://podman.readthedocs.io/). 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: + + + +If reloading the page, or clearing your local cache does not fix the problem, it is +likely caused by broken metadata needed to protect clients from cross-site-scripting +style attacks. Please [notify a maintainer](https://github.com/containers/podman#communications) +so they may investigate how/why the `swagger.yaml` file's CORS-metadata is +incorrect, or the file isn't accessible for some other reason. + +## Local Testing + +Assuming that you have the [dependencies](https://podman.io/getting-started/installation#build-and-run-dependencies) +installed, then also install (showing Fedora in the example): + +``` +# dnf install python3-sphinx python3-recommonmark +# pip install sphinx-markdown-tables +``` +After that completes, cd to the `docs` directory in your Podman sandbox and then do `make html`. + +You can then preview the html files in `docs/build/html` with: +``` +python -m http.server 8000 --directory build/html +``` |