Date: 03 Mar 2004 10:59:03 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Cc: Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Is the handbook no longer installed? Message-ID: <447jy1apmg.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20040303153327.1E66CD@be-well.no-ip.com> References: <20040130002611.GA17221@teddy.fas.com> <20040303061610.EF55843D39@mx1.FreeBSD.org> <448yiif17t.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20040303153327.1E66CD@be-well.no-ip.com>
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Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> writes: > >>> I just discoverd that on a machine I recently rebuilt, I have a dead link > >>> to /usr/share/doc/handbook. Is this not installed now? > >> same problem. and i am a religious cvsupper. > > cvsup won't help, unless you build the whole thing from sources > > that is what i do. It would have been appreciated if you'd mentioned that earlier. > > in which case you would understand it thoroughly from reading the > > FreeBSD Documentation Project Handbook. > > thoroughly would be quite overly kind to the doc Then don't build from sources; just download it pre-built. > > If you are interested in reading it rather than changing it, just > > download it from the FTP sites as described at the front of the > > document. > > been there, done that too. error in jade. but working on it. > > do you have any actual help, or just prefer sarcasm and put-down? I was not being sarcastic. I was suggesting you download the Handbook from the FTP sites, not cvsup the Handbook's sources. That would not involve jade at all, so you clearly didn't comprehend the advice I was attempting to convey. The following two commands would give you an updated copy of the Handbook in html-split format (you can get any other supported format in similar fashion): # fetch ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/book.html-split.tar.bz2 # tar -C /usr/share/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook -xjf book.html-split.tar.bz2
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