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Date:      Sun, 6 Oct 2002 20:11:43 -0400
From:      AlanE <alane@geeksrus.net>
To:        Makoto Matsushita <matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Stable List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: snapshots.jp: stable ports trees missing share/doc/{books,articles}
Message-ID:  <20021007001142.GA65157@wwweasel.geeksrus.net>
In-Reply-To: <20021007085500D.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20021006222336.GA40362@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> <20021007085500D.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org>

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On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 08:55:00AM +0900, Makoto Matsushita wrote:
>
>alane> The trees (used to build the ISO images) are missing the standard FBSD
>alane> doc dirs /usr/share/doc/books and /usr/share/doc/articles (i.e., the
>alane> handbook isn't there, porting guide, committers guide, etc, all
>alane> missing.)
>
>This is by design of this service.  This is because:
>
>	- Poor CPU power doesn't allow to build doc parts, it takes
>	  several hours to finish.
>	- Doc trees can be fetched from www.FreeBSD.org.  Doc tree
>	  build is also tested there, so we can simply avoid
>	  duplicated efforts.
>	- Snapshots users should know where the latest documents are
>	  available.
>	- Even if source build is finished without any problems, doc
>	  build failure turns into "release procedure failure."  Since
>	  documents are essential part of FreeBSD installation, doc
>	  build can be omitted IMHO.
>
>-- -
>Makoto `MAR' Matsushita

All of your points are valid and good ones. I appreciate the quick
response and was just concerned that part of the build might have have
broken in a silent way, and so wanted to be sure it was by intention.
Thanks. (I mirror the build doc tree once a week onto my home machine
any, so it posed no real problem for me at all.)

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Alan Eldridge
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