Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2010 13:20:49 +0000 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: where are the handbooks? Message-ID: <20101219132049.12544c37@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <4d0d93f9.bMGjvP62vTTOjucy%perryh@pluto.rain.com> References: <4d0d694c.MNCBc7X1IUIwLwvi%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <20101219023746.04a4cc3f@gumby.homeunix.com> <4d0d93f9.bMGjvP62vTTOjucy%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
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On Sat, 18 Dec 2010 21:11:21 -0800 perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Thanks. It would never have occurred to me to look for documentation > of the _base_ system in a _port_. The porter's handbook, maybe, but > the others? Seems to me like a POLA violation. The documentation isn't really a part of the base system, it isn't branched, it's continuously updated, it's similar to the ports tree. Older install disks had a snapshot. Having a port/package that installs the snapshot makes it a lot easier to keep up to date. You used to have to use csup to fetch the "source" files and then build the html, pdf, etc which used a lot of CPU. I gave up on it and synced the html version from the website - a port is better.
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