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Date:      Fri, 6 Aug 2004 20:24:55 +0100
From:      Daniel Bye <freebsd-questions@slightlystrange.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Updating local copy of documentation
Message-ID:  <20040806192455.GA94854@catflap.slightlystrange.org>
In-Reply-To: <200408061541.19592.gentoo@tmgcon.com>
References:  <200408061541.19592.gentoo@tmgcon.com>

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On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 03:41:19PM +1200, Tom Munro Glass wrote:
> When you install FreeBSD, lots of useful documentation is installed in th=
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> articles and books directories under /usr/share/doc/ including the essent=
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> handbook.
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> Is there a way of automatically updating this documentation - I thought t=
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> maybe this was done as a part of cvsup, make buildworld, etc, but apparen=
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> not? I realise that I can download the latest version with FTP, but it wo=
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> be nice if this could be done as part of the normal maintenance tasks.

You can get the latest version of hte docs using CVSup.  This is the
CVSUP file I use for that very purpose:

## BEGIN
*default host=3Dcvsup.uk.FreeBSD.org
*default base=3D/usr
*default prefix=3D/usr
*default release=3Dcvs tag=3D.
*default delete use-rel-suffix
*default compress
doc-all
## END

Naturally, you will want to change the host=3D to one near to you.

To have the docs updated when you do a `make update', you need to ensure
that you have `DOCSUPFILE=3D/path/to/doc-supfile' set in /etc/make.conf.

To save time and disk space, you can also tell the build system to only
build docs in one language, using `DOC_LANG=3Den_US.ISO8859-1' in
/etc/make.conf

Once you have gotten the latest sources,=20

# cd /usr/doc
# make all install clean

and all should be well.  Note that you will need to install the
textproc/docproj port to be able to build the docs from the source.  You
can get more info at
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/

HTH

Dan

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