Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 16:53:32 +0100 (CET) From: "Simon L.Nielsen" <simon@nitro.dk> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/49032: [patch] Error in handbook/current-stable Message-ID: <20030308155332.938F810BF84@arthur.nitro.dk>
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>Number: 49032 >Category: docs >Synopsis: [patch] Error in handbook/current-stable >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-doc >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sat Mar 08 08:00:27 PST 2003 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Simon L. Nielsen >Release: FreeBSD 4.8-RC i386 >Organization: >Environment: >Description: In the FreeBSD handbook chapter "21.2 FreeBSD-CURRENT vs. FreeBSD-STABLE" there are links to ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/ and ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-stable/ which does not exist anymore on ftp.freebsd.org (other mirrors does have them). This is the same issue as I noted in the message http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=10651+0+archive/2003/freebsd-doc/20030302.freebsd-doc on freebsd-doc. >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: --- doc-cutting-edge.patch begins here --- Index: chapter.sgml =================================================================== RCS file: /home/ncvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge/chapter.sgml,v retrieving revision 1.180 diff -u -d -r1.180 chapter.sgml --- chapter.sgml 14 Feb 2003 01:07:52 -0000 1.180 +++ chapter.sgml 8 Mar 2003 15:41:38 -0000 @@ -221,9 +221,8 @@ </listitem> <listitem> - <para>Grab the sources from <hostid - role="fqdn">ftp.FreeBSD.org</hostid>. You can do this in - one of three ways:</para> + <para>Grab the sources from a &os; <link linkend="mirrors">mirror + site</link>. You can do this in one of three ways:</para> <orderedlist> <indexterm> @@ -262,9 +261,9 @@ <listitem> <para>Use <command>ftp</command>. The source tree for - &os.current; is always <quote>exported</quote> on: - <ulink - url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/">ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/</ulink>. + &os.current; is <quote>exported</quote> on some of the + <link linkend="mirrors-ftp">FTP mirrors</link> in the + directory <filename>/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/</filename>. Some of our FTP mirrors may also allow compressed/tarred grabbing of whole trees. For example you see:</para> @@ -276,6 +275,12 @@ <screen><prompt>ftp></prompt> <userinput>cd usr.bin</userinput> <prompt>ftp></prompt> <userinput>get lex.tar</userinput></screen> + + <note> + <para>If you wish to download the entire &os.current; source + tree <command>cvsup</command> handles this much better than + mirroring a FTP site.</para> + </note> </listitem> <indexterm> @@ -436,7 +441,7 @@ <para>If you are already running a previous release of &os; and wish to upgrade via sources then you can easily do so - from <hostid role="fqdn">ftp.FreeBSD.org</hostid>. This can + from &os; <link linkend="mirrors">mirror site</link>. This can be done in one of three ways:</para> <orderedlist> @@ -474,9 +479,10 @@ </indexterm> <listitem> <para>Use <command>ftp</command>. The source tree for - &os.stable; is always <quote>exported</quote> on: - <ulink - url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-stable/">ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-stable/</ulink>.</para>; + &os.stable; is <quote>exported</quote> on some of the + <link linkend="mirrors-ftp">FTP mirrors</link> in the + directory <filename>/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-stable/</filename>. + </para> <para>Some of our FTP mirrors may also allow compressed/tarred grabbing of whole trees. For example you @@ -489,6 +495,12 @@ <screen><prompt>ftp></prompt> <userinput>cd usr.bin</userinput> <prompt>ftp></prompt> <userinput>get lex.tar</userinput></screen> + + <note> + <para>If you wish to download the entire &os.stable; source + tree <command>cvsup</command> handles this much better than + mirroring a FTP site.</para> + </note> </listitem> <indexterm> <primary>-STABLE</primary> --- doc-cutting-edge.patch ends here --- >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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