Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:27:17 +0000 From: Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk> To: Masoom Shaikh <masoom.shaikh@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: local copy of handbook Message-ID: <20081229202717.GA78262@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200812292039.43242.masoom.shaikh@gmail.com> References: <b10011eb0812282046j7b784d82q492c8b10cb46db06@mail.gmail.com> <20081229124558.43cefc56@gumby.homeunix.com> <200812292039.43242.masoom.shaikh@gmail.com>
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On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 08:39:42PM +0530, Masoom Shaikh wrote: > > On Monday 29 December 2008 18:15:58 RW wrote: > > On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 10:16:42 +0530 > > "Masoom Shaikh" <masoom.shaikh@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > lso I cud use tarballs from FTP, but is there easy way to install > > > > > them ? also csup didn't help here is my csup file > > > > > > *default tag=RELENG_7 > > > *default host=ftp2.tw.freebsd.org > > > *default prefix=/usr > > > *default base=/var/db > > > *default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix compress > > > src-all > > > doc-all > > > > > > csup updates the source each time, but now i am not sure about doc!! > > > > If you do it that way, you have to generate the html files yourself, > > cvup fetches generic data files that can be used to generate html , pdf > > etc. > > > > What I do these days is mirror the online version with wget. > > > > > > > > #!/bin/sh > > > > cd /usr/share/doc/en > > > > wg_args=" --mirror -np -nH --cut-dirs=2 --limit-rate=33k" > > > > bg_flags="" > > > > # Run quietly from cron > > [ ! -t 0 ] && bg_flags=" --quiet " > > > > wget $bg_flags $wg_args "http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/" > > that is clever use of wget :) > but can't docs remain updated with csup ? if yes, how ? > otherwise I will be happy to generate them from sources if they happen to be > some simple target > You can keep a local copy of the docs & update the sources for the docs with csup but you have to regenerate them with a make command after you have csup'd. The process is described within this page I just put up: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/freebsd_uptodate.html There maybe some errors there or things I've missed, so apologies for that in advance. Any questions, just drop me an email. It's good practice IMO to have a locally updated copy of the handbook. You always need the handbook when your 'net connection is down ;) Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html
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