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Date:      Mon, 22 Sep 2003 20:57:18 +0100
From:      Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
To:        Charles Howse <chowse@charter.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Cvsup refuse confusion
Message-ID:  <20030922195718.GA38937@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <003701c3813d$2a8d3030$04fea8c0@moe>
References:  <20030922185139.GG34858@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <003701c3813d$2a8d3030$04fea8c0@moe>

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On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 02:10:19PM -0500, Charles Howse wrote:
> > > I have deleted the directories in /usr/ports and=20
> > /usr/share/doc that I
> > > don't want.
> >=20
> > You understand that the doc-all collection downloads into /usr/doc,
> > and it contains the SGML source that gets processed into the HTML or
> > other formats the Handbook is available in?  You will have to 'cd
> > /usr/doc ; make install' before anything will appear in
> > /usr/share/doc.
>=20
> I did not understand that.
>=20
> I have just installed FBSD on a second machine on my home network, and I
> am just now getting it configured and cvsupped, and recompiled.
>=20
> I assure you, I have just browsed the German language handbook in
> /usr/share/doc/~de.
> I have not cd /usr/doc ; make install.

Some of the stuff in /usr/share/doc comes with the system, installed
out of /usr/src but the majority, installed under the locale specific
sub dirs comes out of /usr/doc.
=20
> I never knew I had to make install in that directory, so how could that
> have happened?

The gory details are in:

    http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/=20

Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a German translation available.

You'll need to install quite a few extra bits of software in order to
build the documentation.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.                       26 The Paddocks
                                                      Savill Way
PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey         Marlow
Tel: +44 1628 476614                                  Bucks., SL7 1TH UK

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