From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 3 07:59:07 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 BF78316A4CE for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 07:59:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc13.comcast.net (rwcrmhc13.comcast.net [204.127.198.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B22FA43D1D for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 07:59:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from be-well.no-ip.com ([66.30.196.44]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc13) with ESMTP id <2004030315590501500sbgcee>; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 15:59:05 +0000 Received: by be-well.no-ip.com (Postfix, from userid 1147) id AA35BE; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 10:59:03 -0500 (EST) Sender: lowell@be-well.ilk.org To: Randy Bush References: <20040130002611.GA17221@teddy.fas.com> <20040303061610.EF55843D39@mx1.FreeBSD.org> <448yiif17t.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20040303153327.1E66CD@be-well.no-ip.com> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 03 Mar 2004 10:59:03 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20040303153327.1E66CD@be-well.no-ip.com> Message-ID: <447jy1apmg.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 37 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: stan cc: Free BSD Questions list Subject: Re: Is the handbook no longer installed? 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: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 15:59:07 -0000 Randy Bush 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