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From: Kurt Jaeger <pi@freebsd.org>
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Hi!

> > > > man.cgi has provisions for most of this already, it's only missing
> > > > some job to regulary extract the latest

> > > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/amd64/13.0-CURRENT/ports.txz

> > > > for the current tree of the manuals.

> > > How does it actually create the pages though?

> > wosch probably knows this.
> 
> Indeed ;-)
> 
> The ports manual pages will be updated once when a new release comes
> out. Maybe every 3-9 months. The update takes hours and a lot of
> resources (60GB download of all packages and unpacking).

Is there a script or a README how this is done ?

Would it work to do this for each snapshot, if someone automates it ?

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