From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 2 16:01:08 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E57D106567B for ; Tue, 2 Dec 2008 16:01:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mail@ozzmosis.com) Received: from smtp.mel.people.net.au (smtp.mel.people.net.au [218.214.17.98]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5F1778FC16 for ; Tue, 2 Dec 2008 16:01:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mail@ozzmosis.com) Received: (qmail 5458 invoked from network); 2 Dec 2008 15:34:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO blizzard.dnsalias.org) (218.215.157.115) by smtp.mel.people.net.au with SMTP; 2 Dec 2008 15:34:23 -0000 Received: by blizzard.dnsalias.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 48B1E178F2; Wed, 3 Dec 2008 02:34:24 +1100 (EST) Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 02:34:24 +1100 From: andrew clarke To: Marc Fonvieille Message-ID: <20081202153424.GA28433@ozzmosis.com> References: <20081201080917.GA1330@gothic.blackend.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081201080917.GA1330@gothic.blackend.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [Sort of RFC] Ports and packages for docs X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:01:08 -0000 On Mon 2008-12-01 09:09:17 UTC+0100, Marc Fonvieille (marc@blackend.org) wrote: > Currently, it's difficult for the average user to update his docs. > Most of time, the docs are installed during OS install time and are > never updated. This is timely as just recently I upgraded from FreeBSD 6.3-REL to 6.4-REL using freebsd-update. After the upgrade I ran "freebsd-update IDS" and discovered I still had the 6.3 docs installed. >From what I can tell, several months ago I must have deleted all the non-English docs to free up disk space, but this seems to have meant that freebsd-update didn't detect that I still had the English docs installed, so didn't bother to upgrade them. Having a package for the docs makes a lot of sense. And there is no risk in having them outside the FreeBSD base. The system should still come up after a reboot even after "pkg_delete -a". > So just: > > pkg_add -r http://people.freebsd.org/~blackend/pkgs/en-freebsd-doc-20081130.tbz > > and tell me if you like it :) Yes, thanks. :)