Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 11:47:10 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG, Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com> Subject: Re: finding "PMake - A Tutorial" Message-ID: <XFMail.001124114710.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20001124152233.A1928@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>
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On 24-Nov-00 Nik Clayton wrote: > On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 03:47:27PM -0800, Rich Morin wrote: >> Ideally, such an option would provide a complete docs set for the >> release, in several formats (e.g., source code, HTML, ps, pdf), >> (eventually) with indexes. This would not necessarily rely on the >> ScrollKeeper work, but it should be done in a way that seems reasonable >> to the SK folks. > > Investigate ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/ > > The .tar.gz files are just regular tarballs, the .tgz files are FreeBSD > packages you can add and track with the pkg_* commands. > > All we need is an interface in sysinstall that can show the user the > document matrix, showing the document, the language, and the format it's > available in. > > Then we just hook in to sysinstall's existing post-install package > addition functionality. We should add a 'doc' category to the ports collection, and then add in psuedo-ports that have BUILD_DEPENDS on textproc/docproj. The could then build the necessary docs by using anoncvs to checkout a document in a given language and build a doc for a given format. E.g., have ports/english/handbook-ps, ports/chinese/handbook-pdf, etc. with a master port for each document (and slave ports for the different formats. Has this idea been bounced to Asami-san before? > N -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.Baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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