Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 20:24:55 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> To: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> Cc: FreeBSD-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Why does cvsup drop doc in /usr/doc Message-ID: <20030327182455.GA40418@mithrandr.moria.org> In-Reply-To: <20030327130941.35104ed8.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> References: <20030327130941.35104ed8.trhodes@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu 2003-03-27 (13:09), Tom Rhodes wrote: > Hey team, > > I've got an interesting or wierd question. Why does the cvsup application > drop the docs in /usr/doc instead of /usr/share/doc. > > Now I understand that the documentation from the release installs > there, and cvsup keeps track of checked out versions. But can't > we just drop doc/ into that directory? This way those which want > to cvsup and update the doc don't get a copy in both places. > > Perhaps we do it for the ease of CVS, not sure. Perhaps someone > could elaborate on this. I imagine it's because /usr/doc is the "source" and /usr/share/doc is where the /usr/doc stuff installs to? Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@mithrandr.moria.org
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