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Date:      Mon, 06 Aug 2001 07:24:47 +0200
From:      Christoph Sold <so@i-clue.de>
To:        "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@aa.net>
Cc:        freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How do I get the doc sources?
Message-ID:  <3B6E2A1F.E0349B98@i-clue.de>
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"Gary W. Swearingen" wrote:
> 
> I"m planning to submit some PRs against some FDP doc's and
> I thought I'd be a good boy and include diffs of source files.
> I have read most of the web site and cvsup'd doc-all and I
> can't find the source SGML anywhere.  The web site seemed
> to only have "attics" (not that I'd want to get it from there
> anyway - that's what cvsup is for, right?
> 
> Assuming I'm doing something wrong with cvsup, here's the
> relevant parts of my supfile.  See anything wrong?
> 
>     *default host=cvsup8.FreeBSD.org
>     *default tag=RELENG_4
>     *default release=cvs
>     doc-all
> 
> Looking in sup/doc-all/checkouts.cvs:RELENG_4, I see mostly
> .sgml and some .docb files and a directory structure that
> isn't matched (quite) under /usr/share or /usr/local/share.
> And the cvsup took about a second and hadn't been done before
> for about six weeks.  I was expecting many changes and I
> observed zero.
> 
> What am I missing in this scheme?  I'm wondering if I should
> try "doc-all tag=.", but doesn't that get me the very latest
> docs that would go with CURRENT?  Maybe you could say something
> about the way document versions and OS versions interrelate.

DOCS, like PORTS, exist as current-only version. You may alternatively
sync to the RELEASE version of the docs. There is no such thing as a
STABLE or SECURITY (RELENG_4 rsp. -_4_3) version.

HTH
-Christoph Sold

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