From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 19 02:37:53 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9054106566B for ; Sun, 19 Dec 2010 02:37:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwmaillists@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-ww0-f50.google.com (mail-ww0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A3E48FC0A for ; Sun, 19 Dec 2010 02:37:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwf26 with SMTP id 26so1766461wwf.31 for ; Sat, 18 Dec 2010 18:37:52 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:subject :message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Vt5yxSFBuRZXH1WDk/zu/zZtykeVowZOCw9nRuSjfE4=; b=MLaJNK4oduVCrjcNGogd3iaUZP4c+YPctKZCUFQ2hhByQ1b+0uEiCbYrCDS4j+a4yA JzvVkllqfgfEXpAQdvPJV4+C1Z6XmJbcDm7Mlg9YUbJttXDlPEBdtk5ACrLMtVsvj6Hl ETckjpqsJOTDTBzbBpqznkDeHf+c5QOnsoRAs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=LiUED/Oz7XhLVm1FxsSGfM/f+MZqGcjemAmqYt4gloonUcbnnREbs/ZZQoFGQKly12 FaMMC4ybDp0wbMie/Ys2v7ci6iLAEKZO1tjBroiEDhwUL3V3J43TuGJj93lX+nI5KiPl TxEQuD7fMsRay7E6fNMx2Vn+09A7/FM7wxzlc= Received: by 10.227.209.207 with SMTP id gh15mr1653668wbb.207.1292726272335; Sat, 18 Dec 2010 18:37:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com (87-194-105-247.bethere.co.uk [87.194.105.247]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id f35sm1538680wbf.14.2010.12.18.18.37.48 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 18 Dec 2010 18:37:51 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2010 02:37:46 +0000 From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20101219023746.04a4cc3f@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <4d0d694c.MNCBc7X1IUIwLwvi%perryh@pluto.rain.com> References: <4d0d694c.MNCBc7X1IUIwLwvi%perryh@pluto.rain.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.6 (GTK+ 2.22.1; i386-portbld-freebsd8.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: where are the handbooks? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2010 02:37:54 -0000 On Sat, 18 Dec 2010 18:09:16 -0800 perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Which of the 8.1-RELEASE distribution sets contains the handbook, > developer's handbook, porter's handbook, etc? I thought I had > searched everywhere, but must have missed something. Those distributions were a mystery to me the first time I installed FreeBSD and they still are. I've never understood why anyone would want to lump together significant ports installation with minor base-system penny-pinching in such an opaque way. In recent versions of sysinstall the documentation is packaged, so IIWY I'd just install the appropriate port or package. $ ls -d /usr/ports/misc/freebsd-doc-* /usr/ports/misc/freebsd-doc-all /usr/ports/misc/freebsd-doc-ja /usr/ports/misc/freebsd-doc-bn /usr/ports/misc/freebsd-doc-mn /usr/ports/misc/freebsd-doc-da /usr/ports/misc/freebsd-doc-nl /usr/ports/misc/freebsd-doc-de /usr/ports/misc/freebsd-doc-pl /usr/ports/misc/freebsd-doc-el /usr/ports/misc/freebsd-doc-pt /usr/ports/misc/freebsd-doc-en /usr/ports/misc/freebsd-doc-ru /usr/ports/misc/freebsd-doc-es /usr/ports/misc/freebsd-doc-sr /usr/ports/misc/freebsd-doc-fr /usr/ports/misc/freebsd-doc-tr /usr/ports/misc/freebsd-doc-hu /usr/ports/misc/freebsd-doc-zh_cn /usr/ports/misc/freebsd-doc-it /usr/ports/misc/freebsd-doc-zh_tw