Date: 18 Apr 2001 10:27:48 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <lowell@world.std.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to automatically update /usr/share/doc Message-ID: <44pueauvtn.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> In-Reply-To: mwm@mired.org's message of "18 Apr 2001 12:18:35 %2B0200" References: <11301369@toto.iv> <15069.27120.893659.761365@guru.mired.org>
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mwm@mired.org (Mike Meyer) writes: > Andrew Nesbit <alnesbit@optushome.com.au> types: > > hi... I've been successfully doing cvsup's and rebuilding the system, but now > > my /usr/share/doc directory is out of date (in particular, the handbook). > > > > Is there any way of getting cvsup (or some other program) to automatically > > keep this stuff up to date? > > /usr/share/doc is built from source, just like /bin, /usr/bin, and > similar things. > > To get the sources, you need to cvsup the doc set. See > /usr/share/examples/cvsup/doc-supfile for an example of how to do > that. And don't forget the option of downloading the pre-built docs themselves, which you can do via FTP... ================================================================ README file from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/ ================================================================ These subdirectories contain formatted copies of the FreeBSD Documentation Project documentation. packages/ contains pkg_add(1)'able files which integrate nicely in to the FreeBSD package management system. <lang>.<encoding>/ contains further subdirectories corresponding to the actual documentation. Follow the path to the document, format, and compression scheme you want. faq/ and handbook/ Symlinks to the English FAQ and Handbook directories, as these are (probably) of most interest to potential downloaders. Formats ------- Documents are available in the following formats: html-split A collection of small, linked, HTML files html One large HTML file containing the entire document pdb Palm Pilot database format, for use with the iSilo reader, from http://www.iSilo.com/ pdf Adobe Portable Document Format ps Postscript rtf Microsoft's Rich Text Format [1] txt Plain text In addition, documents are compressed with the GNU Zip, regular Zip, and BZip2 format. -- [1] Page numbers are not automatically updated when loading this format in to Word. Press CTRL+A, CTRL+END, F9, after loading the document, to update the page numbers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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