From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 19 13:20:55 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9128106564A for ; Sun, 19 Dec 2010 13:20:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwmaillists@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-wy0-f182.google.com (mail-wy0-f182.google.com [74.125.82.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 797C78FC0C for ; Sun, 19 Dec 2010 13:20:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyf19 with SMTP id 19so2011432wyf.13 for ; Sun, 19 Dec 2010 05:20:54 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:subject :message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=+VWxDtxVlNFGMa1TEHbTLFAeAv/GC6wANZl38Abc6To=; b=CmshERC+3pGAWn1NRJ8/Gj8d4O48oD8WBo3zEAdeCSLM7KXXPU8wNAfBLcdFNHF0JY NECH1IOKC2fAk/uWVRFgC2XCwnssUX2dk4KLZQD71WXuWVIb+OcsWfJW45gT/n0XvVnZ fSWWEEoeahHAPPQ/4hfKrRCJ3E59Qj0KZzeuw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=aTdJ2XKlVcG4QewDY72Ciax2m3C/1E9r/IKrOGyDxeJnSM2G7o2SKOuctZQC4C9rY2 puaAl0KZf9p/mznZE/qmrlV0+fsjfI03dHC12BA3mpax1Cok1Il1JVRDwQ5kOK+emGnB E6sjYg8LGoTJB4cXvaPeYbg8/ovSlQAl7SG4k= Received: by 10.227.136.15 with SMTP id p15mr1905050wbt.134.1292764854316; Sun, 19 Dec 2010 05:20:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com (87-194-105-247.bethere.co.uk [87.194.105.247]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id m13sm1861809wbz.21.2010.12.19.05.20.52 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 19 Dec 2010 05:20:53 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2010 13:20:49 +0000 From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20101219132049.12544c37@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <4d0d93f9.bMGjvP62vTTOjucy%perryh@pluto.rain.com> References: <4d0d694c.MNCBc7X1IUIwLwvi%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <20101219023746.04a4cc3f@gumby.homeunix.com> <4d0d93f9.bMGjvP62vTTOjucy%perryh@pluto.rain.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.6 (GTK+ 2.22.1; i386-portbld-freebsd8.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: where are the handbooks? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2010 13:20:56 -0000 On Sat, 18 Dec 2010 21:11:21 -0800 perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Thanks. It would never have occurred to me to look for documentation > of the _base_ system in a _port_. The porter's handbook, maybe, but > the others? Seems to me like a POLA violation. The documentation isn't really a part of the base system, it isn't branched, it's continuously updated, it's similar to the ports tree. Older install disks had a snapshot. Having a port/package that installs the snapshot makes it a lot easier to keep up to date. You used to have to use csup to fetch the "source" files and then build the html, pdf, etc which used a lot of CPU. I gave up on it and synced the html version from the website - a port is better.