documentation/conf.py: define a manpage url

By defining the manpages_url we can use the :manpage: role in the
documentation for providing links to manpages. See:
https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/configuration.html#confval-manpages_url

Replace existing manpages links to use this role.

Reviewed-by: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@cherry.de>
(From yocto-docs rev: 0d0115cb2d96960837678f775cf5c2297494c51c)

Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
(cherry picked from commit 4e63cd74cd1a330ea5e96bb04243a90f607b2857)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/documentation/conf.py b/documentation/conf.py
index 477e75112a..2aceeb8e79 100644
--- a/documentation/conf.py
+++ b/documentation/conf.py
@@ -111,6 +111,9 @@ extlinks = {
     'wikipedia': ('https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%s', None),
 }
 
+# To be able to use :manpage:`<something>` in the docs.
+manpages_url = 'https://manpages.debian.org/{path}'
+
 # Intersphinx config to use cross reference with BitBake user manual
 intersphinx_mapping = {
     'bitbake': ('https://docs.yoctoproject.org/bitbake/' + bitbake_version, None)