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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

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