Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 02:34:24 +1100 From: andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com> To: Marc Fonvieille <marc@blackend.org> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [Sort of RFC] Ports and packages for docs Message-ID: <20081202153424.GA28433@ozzmosis.com> In-Reply-To: <20081201080917.GA1330@gothic.blackend.org> References: <20081201080917.GA1330@gothic.blackend.org>
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On Mon 2008-12-01 09:09:17 UTC+0100, Marc Fonvieille (marc@blackend.org) wrote: > Currently, it's difficult for the average user to update his docs. > Most of time, the docs are installed during OS install time and are > never updated. This is timely as just recently I upgraded from FreeBSD 6.3-REL to 6.4-REL using freebsd-update. After the upgrade I ran "freebsd-update IDS" and discovered I still had the 6.3 docs installed. >From what I can tell, several months ago I must have deleted all the non-English docs to free up disk space, but this seems to have meant that freebsd-update didn't detect that I still had the English docs installed, so didn't bother to upgrade them. Having a package for the docs makes a lot of sense. And there is no risk in having them outside the FreeBSD base. The system should still come up after a reboot even after "pkg_delete -a". > So just: > > pkg_add -r http://people.freebsd.org/~blackend/pkgs/en-freebsd-doc-20081130.tbz > > and tell me if you like it :) Yes, thanks. :)
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