Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 17:12:09 +0000 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@freebsd.org> Cc: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>, sam1600@iname.com, doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd manual in html format? Message-ID: <20010104171209.A4373@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <200101031838.f03Icjm65863@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com>; from bmah@freebsd.org on Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 10:38:45AM -0800 References: <001227101708E0.28727@weba4.iname.net> <200012291850.eBTIoHJ24177@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> <20010101213447.A349@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> <200101031838.f03Icjm65863@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com>
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--1yeeQ81UyVL57Vl7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 10:38:45AM -0800, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > If memory serves me right, Nik Clayton wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 10:50:16AM -0800, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > > > > Please tell me where I can download the freebsd > > > > manual in html format. > > > > > > > > I looked here: > > > > ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/handbook/ > > > > > > I'm not sure the handbook is available from the FreeBSD FTP server as a > > > single HTML file. > > > > It certainly should be. See question 17 of the FAQ. > > I agree that it should be, but the original poster said he couldn't > find it and I can't either. This is where I just looked: > > ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/ > > We have versions of the handbook in pdb, pdf, ps, rtf, and txt format, > compressed with bz2, gz, and zip. HTML is not one of these. :-( I'm > not that familiar with the way we build the docs for our Web site, so I > can't comment further. Bug in my script[1]. Specifically, if you make FORMATS=html\ html-split INSTALL_ONLY_COMPRESSED=yes install it won't do anything. FORMATS needs to contain html.tar and html-split.tar, so that the tarballs are built (which makes sense, in a perverse sort of way). > One other thing I noticed: the modification dates for the > aforementioned files are all "Dec 20 00:47". Are these files supposed > to get updated more frequently? Periodically, when I remember. Typically, once a week (sometimes a bit more if I've been on holiday, as I was last week). I've got a machine inside the uk.bsdi.com domain which keeps an up to date CVS tree on it. Periodically I run the attached script, which does the build. Then I've got an account on ftp.freesoftware.com, and I run mirror(1), which brings the updated files on to the FTP site. The build doesn't happen automatically because the machine I do the builds on has variable load, and I try and time it so the machine's only lightly used. Also, I've had zero time to invest in completely automating this. Of course, should anyone want to, this is exactly the sort of thing that can be cleaned up and put in something like doc/share/examples/. N PS: 'my' script? The vast majority of this was written by Alexey a while ago. His script, my bug :-) -- Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95. Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. USENET transmission, hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Thinking before posting, priceless. Somethings in life you can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard. -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery --1yeeQ81UyVL57Vl7 Content-Type: application/x-sh Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="build-doc-packages2.sh" #!/bin/sh # # Build an updated package collection of the FreeBSD docs # # $FreeBSD$ # # Responsible. MAILERRORSTO=nik # Formats to build FORMATS="html html-split txt ps pdf rtf pdb" #FORMATS="html html-split ps pdf txt rtf" # Build area. Either set this to something else, or symlink it to a # directory as necessary. TMPDIR=/home/nik/doc-build/build # Subdirectory used to store old logs. LOGDIR=/home/nik/doc-build/logs # Current date (format YYMMDD). Will be used to store logs. DT=`LANG=C date +%y%m%d` # Log file names CVSLOG=$LOGDIR/tmp/cvs.log.$DT BUILDLOG=$LOGDIR/tmp/build.log.$DT # Compress logs and move out of the temporary directories backup_logs () { gzip $CVSLOG mv $CVSLOG.gz $LOGDIR/ gzip $BUILDLOG mv $BUILDLOG.gz $LOGDIR/ } # Check log directory for existence. if [ ! -d $LOGDIR ]; then mkdir -p $LOGDIR if [ $? != 0 ]; then echo mkdir $LOGDIR failed. exit 1 fi fi # Remove and re-create temporary log directory for current build logs. # It will clean up stale logs. rm -fr $LOGDIR/tmp mkdir -p $LOGDIR/tmp # Test for the existence of the build directory, create as necessary, # and then cd there if [ ! -d $TMPDIR ]; then mkdir -p $TMPDIR if [ $? != 0 ]; then echo mkdir $TMPDIR failed. exit 1 fi fi cd $TMPDIR if [ $? != 0 ]; then echo Could not cd to $TMPDIR. exit 1 fi # Clean out everything that's gone before rm -rf * if [ $? != 0 ]; then echo rm -rf failed. exit 1; fi # Check out a fresh tree, then create the package building area cvs -q -d /home/ncvs checkout -P doc > $CVSLOG 2>&1 cd doc mkdir packages mkdir archives # Do the build. First, build all the packages # # NIK_DOC_BUILD is a hack. The machine most of the builds are done on # has # # .if !defined(NIK_DOC_BUILD) # DOC_LANG=en_US.ISO_8859-1 # .endif # # in /etc/make.conf make -i-DNIK_DOC_BUILD FORMATS="$FORMATS" package > $BUILDLOG 2>&1 if [ $? != 0 ]; then tail -100 $BUILDLOG | \ mail -s "Doc build at `LANG=C date +%y.%m.%d` failed" $MAILERRORSTO backup_logs exit 1 fi # Now, build the various other compressed formats. Should take less time, # as the stuff's already built. No need to check for errors either. make -i -DNIK_DOC_BUILD FORMATS="$FORMATS html.tar html-split.tar" INSTALL_COMPRESSED="gz bz2 zip" INSTALL_ONLY_COMPRESSED=yes DOCDIR=${TMPDIR}/doc/archives install # Upload (?) updated packages somewhere ? cd packages # # # backup_logs # Remove temporary directories rm -r $LOGDIR/tmp --1yeeQ81UyVL57Vl7-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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