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Date:      Mon, 2 Oct 2000 22:13:47 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To:        Roger Merritt <mcrogerm@stjohn.ac.th>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Updating docs
Message-ID:  <14809.20203.202472.527179@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <99568810@toto.iv>

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Roger Merritt writes:
> I'm embarrassed that I haven't been able to find the answer to this
> myself, but how the devil do I update the Handbook and other docs on my
> machine? I've run cvsup doc-all tag=. several times, a lot of stuff is
> downloaded, cvsup quits happy, but my handbook still is the one that
> describes installation of FreeBSD 2.2.8. I've looked in the Makefile in
> /usr/doc, but it appears to just run cvsup doc-all.

Did you try building the docs? In particular, "make install" should
work. That target is in the file doc.subdir.mk file included by the
top level Makefile.

> I haven't found anything in the Handbook itself nor in the FreeBSD
> Documentation Project. It's not a crippling problem, because I can
> always access the latest edition on the net, but it would be convenient
> to have my local copy up-to-date.

It's in the documentation project primer. See <URL:
http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/docproj-primer/doc-build.html > for
details on the build process.

	<mike


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