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@@ -302,6 +302,39 @@ Linux kernel and C library interfaces employed by user-space programs.")
;; 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
+ "This package provides 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.