Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 08:57:15 +0100 From: Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl> To: Sue Blake <aunty_sue@yahoo.com.au> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: keeping /usr/share/doc up to date Message-ID: <20030304075715.GA4319@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <20030304003041.51869.qmail@web14007.mail.yahoo.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 11:30:41AM +1100, Sue Blake wrote: > After upgrading I need to get an up to date handbook, faq, and preferably > the other material that resides under /usr/share/doc too. > > Our Internet access is limited to web browser with passworded proxy, so I > can only get to ftp sites by point and click. Downloading each of these > book.html.tar.gz and article.html.tar.gz files, in case they might have > been updated, is tedious but doable. We do have access to a local CVS > repository here, but it only gives SGML for docs. > > It would be much nicer if there existed a small simple tool that could > quietly convert the SGML to rough HTML or text during the upgrade. > We have lots of tiny gems that convert other document formats, but I > don't know of any for this task. Processing SGML seems to need several > huge and small pieces of interdependent software probably of various > origins and license types, each one requiring approval installation > documentation auditing and maintenance. That's not realistic for this site. > > We will face the same problem each time the systems are upgraded: > the expectation that the online documentation that appears on the OS > filesystem alongside the binaries would be approximately the documentation > that speaks for those binaries. > > I think I could whip up a script that takes the checked out sgml and simply > removes anything between angle brackets and presents the result as a text > file (with big thanks to the neatness of the docs writers!), but I would be > grateful for any better suggestions. Why not FTP the doc distribution for your release? For example, get all the files from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.7-RELEASE/doc and then use # DESTDIR=/where/you/want/the/docs # export DESTDIR # mkdir $DESTDIR # sh install.sh to install them. Sysinstall would also work, but I'm not really familiar with that. HTH, --Stijn -- SIGSIG -- signature too long (core dumped) [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+ZFxbY3r/tLQmfWcRAijuAKCXDi8V3IqmkuV3UGJ9zpNn7IAvTgCeK0TP jmNIhMVDIVinAGdiSwK1fGw= =FVDr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
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