From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 16 02:08:15 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18C5916A4CE for ; Thu, 16 Dec 2004 02:08:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccimhc92.asp.att.net (sccimhc92.asp.att.net [63.240.76.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB0A243D31 for ; Thu, 16 Dec 2004 02:08:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from FreeBSD@insightbb.com) Received: from [192.168.1.239] (12-202-28-183.client.insightbb.com[12.202.28.183]) by sccimhc92.asp.att.net (sccimhc92) with ESMTP id <20041216020814i92002berje>; Thu, 16 Dec 2004 02:08:14 +0000 From: Steven Friedrich To: Kris Kennaway Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 21:08:12 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <200412151850.27169.FreeBSD@insightbb.com> <200412152036.23013.FreeBSD@insightbb.com> <20041216014948.GA64124@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20041216014948.GA64124@xor.obsecurity.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200412152108.13068.FreeBSD@insightbb.com> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: handbook version X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 02:08:15 -0000 On Wednesday 15 December 2004 08:49 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 08:36:22PM -0500, Steven Friedrich wrote: > > On Wednesday 15 December 2004 07:21 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 06:50:27PM -0500, Steven Friedrich wrote: > > > > I noticed that the local version of the handbook is from Release 4.7 > > > > and the version on the web site is 4.10. > > > > > > > > I'm not trying to be critical, I'm just wondering if I'm supposed to > > > > be performing some action to get the latest, or if 4.11 release > > > > (which I believe will be the last 4.x) will contain the latest > > > > version. > > > > > > You can download a newer version from the FTP site, or install it > > > using the installer from the relevant release. > > > > > > Kris > > > > I can't figure this out. I've set Options...release to "any" and to "." > > to no avail. > > If you use e.g. the 4.10 installation media, you should not have to > change any options to get the 4.10 docs. > > > And I logged in via ftp and perused the directory structure and > > tried packages-4.10-release, still no joy. > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc > > Kris I don't have 4.10 media, I installed from 4.7 and have been tracking -stable since then. I'm currently running 4.11-prerelease. I followed the ftp link in your last mail, but I see 18 files and I don't know which I need. I've never heard of a .pdb...